page_title: Vetëvendosje
hierarchical_section_title: Vetëvendosje
caption_attribution_description: English: Image obtained from VETEVENDOSJE! website, URL: http://www.vetevendosje.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=28&amp;pos=30 The website is in Albanian language.
context_page_description: Vetëvendosje is a progressive, social-democratic, Albanian nationalist political party in Kosovo that opposes foreign involvement in the country's internal affairs, and campaigns for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity and for the sovereignty exercised by the people, as part of the right to self-determination. Vetevendosje is also the largest political party in Kosovo.
  The movement widely bases its ideology on the works of Ukshin Hoti. The program of Vetëvendosje focuses on three main axes: developmental state, meritocracy, and welfare state. They are characterized by the big contrast with the mainstream political spectrum within Kosovo concerning two issues that characterize Kosovo after the war: the long process of negotiations with Serbia concerning the internal organization and socio-political aspects of Kosovo, without imposing any prior conditions to the Serbian side, which they consider "unfair and harmful", and the process of privatization of public companies which they describe as "a corruption model, contributing to increasing unemployment, ruining the economy, and halting economic development of the country".
context_section_description: Vetëvendosje (Albanian: [ˌvɛtəvɛnˈdosjɛ], LV; English: Self-determination) is a progressive, social-democratic, Albanian nationalist political party in Kosovo that opposes foreign involvement in the country's internal affairs, and campaigns for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity and for the sovereignty exercised by the people, as part of the right to self-determination. Vetevendosje is also the largest political party in Kosovo.
  The movement widely bases its ideology on the works of Ukshin Hoti. The program of Vetëvendosje focuses on three main axes: developmental state, meritocracy, and welfare state. They are characterized by the big contrast with the mainstream political spectrum within Kosovo concerning two issues that characterize Kosovo after the war: the long process of negotiations with Serbia concerning the internal organization and socio-political aspects of Kosovo, without imposing any prior conditions to the Serbian side, which they consider "unfair and harmful", and the process of privatization of public companies which they describe as "a corruption model, contributing to increasing unemployment, ruining the economy, and halting economic development of the country".
  Vetëvendosje was formed in 2004 as a citizen initiative called Kosova Action Network (KAN). It received its current name in 2005 after protests against the negotiations with Serbia for the independence of Kosovo, calling for the declaration of independence based on the right for Self-determination. Vetëvendosje entered the Parliament of Kosovo in 2011 after participating in elections for the first time. Their first electoral success was in 2013 when they won the elections in the capital, Pristina. Vetëvendosje became the biggest political party in Kosovo after the 2017 Kosovan Parliamentary Elecion, but remained in opposition. In the same year, Vetëvendosje won the elections in Pristina, Prizren and Kamenica, with the former two being the biggest cities in Kosovo. They additionally became part of the governing coalition in the municipality of Vushtrri, where they ran as a small partner in coalition with LDK. In 2018, Vetëvendosje split and the mayors of Pristina and Kamenica left Vetëvendosje and joined PSD. The Mayor of Mitrovica, Agim Bahtiri, joined Vetëvendosje in 2019, increasing the number of municipalities that they run to two. Vetëvendosje won the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election, remaining the biggest political party in Kosovo. In February 2020 they signed a coalition agreement with LDK to form the new Government of Kosovo. The leader of Vetëvendosje, Albin Kurti, is a former Prime Minister of Kosovo
caption: "No negotiations, self-determination" graffiti in Glogovac
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