Lumir Abdixhiku

Lumir Abdixhiku (born 22 April 1983) is a Kosovar Albanian politician serving as President of Democratic League of Kosovo since 14 March 2021.

Abdixhiku continued his postgraduate studies in Great Britain, receiving a MSc in Economics for Business Analysis in 2006 and a PhD in 2013 from Staffordshire University.

He received his PhD after four years of research in the field of ‘Determinants of Business Tax Evasion in Transition Economies’.

Writing under the banner “Letters from limbo”, he has covered a broad range of issues that preoccupied Kosovan society in the aftermath of the declaration of independence, mainly criticizing what he considered rampant corruption, nepotism, gerrymandering, deep state, among others.

As a leader of LDK, Abdixhiku undertook several reforms and embraced a conciliatory tone that helped his party reach favorable results in the municipal elections held in 2021.