President of the League of Communists of Kosovo
Albanian: Kryetar i Lidhjes së Komunistëve të Kosovës
Emblems of the LCY
TypeParty leader
Member ofLCY Presidency and SAPK Presidency
AppointerLKK Provincial Committee
Term lengthTwo years, non-renewable
(1982–1991)
Constituting instrumentLCY Charter & LKK Charter
Formation25 July 1937
First holderMiladin Popović
Final holderRahman Morina
Abolished17 July 1990

The president was the leader of the League of Communists of Kosovo (LKK), the ruling party of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo (SAPK) of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The LKK was the provincial organisation of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) in Kosovo. Party rules stipulated that the LKK Provincial Committee elected the president. Moreover, the Central Committee was empowered to remove the president. The president served ex officio as a member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) and of the SAPK Presidency. To be eligible to serve, the president had to be a member of the Executive Committee of the LKK Provincial Committee. The 13th LKK Provincial Conference instituted a one-year term limits for officeholders.

The office traces its lineage back to the office of "Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo and Metohija", established on 25 July 1937 and elected Miladin Popović to head the Kosovo branch. This body had no distinct rights and was under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Central Committee. The LCY 6th Congress on 2–7 November 1952, renamed the party League of Communists, and the Kosovo branch followed suit and changed its name to League of Communists of Kosovo. On 4 October 1966, the 5th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the LCY 8th Congress abolished the office of General Secretary at the national level and replaced with the office of President. The SKS Central Committee convened a meeting in 1966 that abolished the office of secretary and established the "President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo". The reforms passed by the LCY Central Committee plenum strengthened the powers of the provincial branches of Kosovo and Vojvodina and gave more powers to the LKK party leader. The 13th LKK Conference introduced another set of reforms on 26 April 1982, which abolished the existing office and replaced it with the "President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo". This office was retained until 17 July 1990, when the League of Communists of Serbia changed its name to the "Socialist Party of Serbia".

Office history

Title Established Abolished Established by
Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo and Metohija
Albanian: Sekretar i Komitetit Krahinor të Lidhjes së Komunistëve të Kosovës dhe Metohisë 		25 July 1937 1966 Central Committee of the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo
Albanian: Kryetar i Komitetit Krahinor të Lidhjes së Komunistëve të Kosovës 		1966 26 April 1982 ? Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the 4th Congress
President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo
Albanian: Kryetar i Kryesisë së Komitetit Krahinor të Lidhjes së Komunistëve të Kosovës 		26 April 1982 17 July 1990 11th Congress of the League of Communists of Macedonia

Officeholders

Presidents of the League of Communists of Kosovo
No. Name Took office Left office Tenure Term of office Birth PM Death Nationality Ref.
1 Miladin Popović 25 July 1937 December 1937 129 days 1st
(1937–1939) 		1910 1934 1945 Montenegrin [1]
2 Petar Radović December 1937 August 1938 243 days 1st
(1937–1939) 		1907 1931 1944 Montenegrin [2]
3 Miladin Popović September 1939 July 1941 1 year, 303 days 2nd
(1939–1945) 		1910 1934 1945 Montenegrin [1]
4 Boro Vukmirović July 1941 April 1943 1 year, 274 days 2nd
(1939–1945) 		1912 1933 1943 Montenegrin [3]
5 Pavle Jovićević April 1943 15 October 1944 1 year, 197 days 2nd
(1939–1945) 		1910 1938 1985 Montenegrin [4]
6 Miladin Popović 15 October 1944 13 March 1945 149 days 2nd
(1939–1945) 		1910 1934 1945 Montenegrin [1]
7 Đorđije Pajković 23 March 1945 February 1956 10 years, 315 days 3rd–10th
(1945–1956) 		1917 1936 1980 Montenegrin [5]
8 Dušan Mugoša February 1956 16 June 1956 136 days 10th
(1954–1956) 		1914 1934 1973 Montenegrin [6]
9 Veli Deva 16 June 1956 28 June 1971 15 years, 12 days 7th–10th
(1956–1974) 		1923 1942 2015 Albanian [7]
10 Mahmut Bakalli 28 June 1971 5 May 1981 9 years, 311 days 10th–12th
(1968–1982) 		1936 1957 2006 Albanian [8]
11 Veli Deva 5 May 1981 26 April 1982 356 days 12th
(1978–1982) 		1923 1942 2015 Albanian [7]
12 Sinan Hasani 26 April 1982 May 1983 1 year, 5 days 13th
(1982–1986) 		1922 1942 2010 Albanian [9]
13 Ilijaz Kurteši May 1983 18 May 1984 1 year, 17 days 13th
(1982–1986) 		1927 1949 2016 Albanian [10]
14 Svetislav Dolašević 18 May 1984 May 1985 348 days 13th
(1982–1986) 		1926 1945 1995 Serb [11]
15 Kolj Široka May 1985 29 April 1986 363 days 13th
(1982–1986) 		1922 1941 1994 Albanian [12]
16 Azem Vllasi 29 April 1986 27 April 1988 1 year, 364 days 14th
(1986–1989) 		1948 1965 Alive Albanian [13]
17 Kaqusha Jashari 27 April 1988 17 November 1988 204 days 14th
(1986–1989) 		1946 1975 Alive Albanian [14]
18 Remzi Kolgeci 17 November 1988 27 January 1989 71 days 14th
(1986–1989) 		1947 ? 2011 Albanian [15]
19 Rahman Morina 27 January 1989 17 July 1990 1 year, 171 days 15th
(1989–1990) 		1943 ? 1990 Albanian [16]

References

  1. ^ a b c Elsie 2011, p. 219.
  2. ^ Tito 1977, p. 368.
  3. ^ Tito 1977, p. 352.
  4. ^ Tito 1982c, p. 341.
  5. ^ Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 456.
  6. ^ Staff writer 1965, p. 2193.
  7. ^ a b Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 124; Stroynowski 1989a, p. 235.
  8. ^ Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 39; Stroynowski 1989a, pp. 44–45.
  9. ^ Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 723; Stroynowski 1989a, p. 406.
  10. ^ Stroynowski 1989b, p. 651.
  11. ^ Stroynowski 1989a, p. 250.
  12. ^ Stroynowski 1989c, p. 1075.
  13. ^ Stroynowski 1989c, p. 1266.
  14. ^ Elsie 2011, pp. 142–143.
  15. ^ Štěpánek 2016, p. 274.
  16. ^ Elsie 2011, p. 193.

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