Bajram Rexhepi
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Bajram Rexhepi (b. June 3, 1954 in Mitrovica) is a politician and the first post-war prime minister of Kosovo. He is a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo.
He gratuated from the University of Prishtina and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in 1985. He spent most of his career working as a successful surgeon.
During the 1999 conflict, Rexhepi joined the Kosovo Liberation Army and spent three months serving as a field doctor. In the general elections of November 2001 in Kosovo, Rexhepi's party won 25.7 percent of the votes, second only to Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, and Rexhepi was appointed prime minister by the Assembly of Kosovo on March 4, 2002. In the following general elections, held on October 24, 2004 the Democratic Party of Kosovo came second and won 30 seats in the parliament.
Rexhepi is considered a moderate politician, and he claimed one of his most important goals would be to "to enhance ethnic tolerance and reconciliation". Curiously, a Prishtina weekly magazine awarded him the "hairstyle of the year" award twice in a row.