Bajram Rexhepi

Infobox Prime Minister


name=Bajram Rexhepi
order=3rd Prime Minister of Kosovo
party=PDK
term_start =March 4, 2002
term_end =December 3, 2004
predecessor =Nexhat Daci (acting)
successor =Ramush Haradinaj
birth_date =Birth date and age|1954|6|3|mf=y
birth_place =Kosovska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia (in today's Kosovo)
death_date =
death_place =

Bajram Rexhepi (Serbo-Croat: Бајрам Реџепи, "Bajram Redžepi") (born June 3, 1954 in Kosovska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia - in today's Kosovo) is a politician and the first elected post-war Prime Minister of Kosovo. He is a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

He graduated from the University of Pristina 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 Kosovo War, Rexhepi joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) 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 (LDK), 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 as moderate politician, and he claimed one of his most important goals would be to "to enhance ethnic tolerance and reconciliation".fact|date=July 2008