America’s top diplomat is no stranger to the region whose bloody conflicts overshadowed part of her husband’s presidency.
Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovo's president of three years and leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, chose party over the presidency after the constitutional court ruled he could not keep both posts.
Corruption allegations have not dented the popularity of the KLA- fighter-turned-PDK politician who has made it his mission to transform the country’s traffic arteries.
Thaci, born in 1968, joined the Albanian independence cause as a student, becoming one of the leaders of the protest movement in the early 1990s. As the Serbian crackdown intensified, he left for Switzerland, studying history and international relations in Zurich.