<p>Lawmakers in Kosovo elected and swore in a new president Sunday for a five-year term, the Balkan nation's second female leader in the post-war period.</p>.<p>The 120-seat parliament, which convened in an extraordinary session for two days, gave 71 votes for Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, the former parliament speaker, in the third round of voting, while 11 votes were invalid.</p>.<p>Two opposition parties and the ethnic Serb minority party boycotted the voting.</p>.<p>In November, the 38-year-old Osmani-Sadriu temporarily replaced former President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, who resigned after facing charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague. <br /><br /><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/how-to-unite-a-deeply-divided-kosovo-name-a-lake-after-trump-956206.html" target="_blank">How to unite a deeply divided Kosovo? Name a lake after Trump</a></strong></p>.<p>Osmani-Sadriu, post-war Kosovo's seventh president and its second female one, had the backing of the left-wing Self-Determination Movement, or Vetevendosje!, which won Kosovo's February 14 early election in a landslide. The party now holds the three top posts: the president, the speaker and the prime minister.</p>.<p>Osmani-Sadriu was the top vote-getter in that election.</p>.<p>As president, she will have largely a ceremonial post as the head of state. But she also has a leading position in foreign policy and is the commander of the armed forces.</p>.<p>Resuming normalisation talks with former war foe Serbia is a priority in her list, even though the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said it's not high in its key goals.</p>.<p>Kosovo became independent in 2008 after NATO intervened in 1999 to stop then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's bloody crackdown on Albanian independence fighters' insurrection. It is recognized by more than 100 countries but not by Serbia or Serbian allies like Russia and China.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in Kosovo elected and swore in a new president Sunday for a five-year term, the Balkan nation's second female leader in the post-war period.</p>.<p>The 120-seat parliament, which convened in an extraordinary session for two days, gave 71 votes for Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, the former parliament speaker, in the third round of voting, while 11 votes were invalid.</p>.<p>Two opposition parties and the ethnic Serb minority party boycotted the voting.</p>.<p>In November, the 38-year-old Osmani-Sadriu temporarily replaced former President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, who resigned after facing charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague. <br /><br /><strong>Read more: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/how-to-unite-a-deeply-divided-kosovo-name-a-lake-after-trump-956206.html" target="_blank">How to unite a deeply divided Kosovo? Name a lake after Trump</a></strong></p>.<p>Osmani-Sadriu, post-war Kosovo's seventh president and its second female one, had the backing of the left-wing Self-Determination Movement, or Vetevendosje!, which won Kosovo's February 14 early election in a landslide. The party now holds the three top posts: the president, the speaker and the prime minister.</p>.<p>Osmani-Sadriu was the top vote-getter in that election.</p>.<p>As president, she will have largely a ceremonial post as the head of state. But she also has a leading position in foreign policy and is the commander of the armed forces.</p>.<p>Resuming normalisation talks with former war foe Serbia is a priority in her list, even though the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said it's not high in its key goals.</p>.<p>Kosovo became independent in 2008 after NATO intervened in 1999 to stop then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's bloody crackdown on Albanian independence fighters' insurrection. It is recognized by more than 100 countries but not by Serbia or Serbian allies like Russia and China.</p>