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Do we like Vjosa Osmani?

Our score: 6 out of 10. No harm turned up and she's in a messy political fight, but our checks were thin, so this is a cautious 6.

Vjosa Osmani's five-year term as Kosovo's president ended in April 2026, after parliament couldn't agree on who should replace her. She is now a former president who ran for parliament on the list of her former party, the LDK. It's a big comedown from head of state, and she hasn't gone quietly.

The drama kicked off on 6 March, when she said she was dissolving parliament to pave the way for an early election, because lawmakers had failed to elect her successor. She said she wanted a quick vote to avoid more instability. Where you land on that depends on whether you read it as a president doing her job in a deadlock or as one more move in a power play.

It also turned into a public falling-out with Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whose party had been her ally. Reporting on her return to politics with the LDK frames the split as a big part of the story. We can't tell you who was in the right, and neither could the coverage we could read.

Then there's Washington. In July 2025, US envoy Richard Grenell publicly accused her of manipulating Donald Trump's words after she said Trump had helped head off a Serbia-Kosovo escalation. In March 2026 he came back at her again, saying she would say anything for political survival. That's one American envoy's attack in a political fight, not a court finding, and Osmani's own response in 2025 was to decline to comment and point reporters to US institutions.

On the harm check, nothing in the coverage we read shows her demeaning LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or anyone else, and no climate-denial or conspiracy material turned up. Honest gap: we couldn't open full articles this time, so the detail on her record on LGBTQ+ rights and women's issues is thin, and we haven't scored her on things we couldn't check.

Nor could we pin down dated good deeds from pages we could verify, so she gets no big credit for causes here. Her profile as a politician is mostly about institutional fights, not scandals. No criminal conviction or finding against her turned up in what we found.