Former head of PDK, Kadri Wessel today celebrates birthday at The Hague

Kadri Wessel has been filling 54 years today, while this is the first birthday he is spending at The Hague following his arrest by the Special last year.

He was born on May 31st 1967 in Mitrovica. The primary school went to the school “Ismail Kemali” in Bair, Mitrovica.

In 1990, he began his studies in Pristina, at the Faculty of Agriculture, as well as at the High Pedagogical School of Literature and Albanian.

Due to political circumstances, Kadri Wessel, the rest of his studies by Pristina University, continues at the University of Tirana at the Agronomy branch. Meanwhile after 1999, he has continued his professional formation in “MBA in General Management”

He began his domestic and political activity as a student in 1988-1989, among the People's Movement for the Republic of Kosovo ( The RPRK -- later, becoming one of the protest organisers and demonstrations that were held at the time against the Serbian and Yugoslav system that abused the Albanian people and violated Albanian national and human rights.

From 1993 to 1998, Kadri Wessel co-ordinates activities around the armed struggle from Switzerland, Albania, the Dukagjini area, Drenica, Pashrik, etc.

At this time, it is appointed command of the KLA's Anti-discovering Service (G-2), which it will exercise until the end of the war.

Following Kosovo's liberation (June 12th 1999), along with other KLA units, even the intelligence intelligence service (G-2) is deployed in Pristina to continue the mission under new circumstances.

Under conditions of peace, military service revealed the counterintelligence had to be transformed into intelligence service. Kosovo Information Service (SHIK) was shut down only after Kosovo's declaration of Independence on February 17, 2008.

At the end of 2012, Kadri Veselin is members of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), undergoing election procedures and the PDK Convention VI which was held on January 27th in 2013, he received votes from members of the General Council to become deputy chairman of the party.

Wessel was voted president of the Republic of Kosovo on 8 December 2014. He was appointed at the helm of the PDK, following Hashim Thaci's resignation, who freed the post due to constitutional obligations, to assume the post of president of the Republic of Kosovo.

After the 2017 parliamentary elections, Wessel was re-elected as Parliament Speaker on September 7, 2017.