Politics
New Kosovo Alliance
Much of his potential was put into the interest of Kosovo, lobbying in Brussels and Washington, with his lobbying company "The New Kosovo Alliance", a company created exclusively to lobby for the creation of the state of Kosovo. Kosovo.
In this journey, Behgjet Pacolli has collaborated with many important figures of world politics, especially American politics, such as: Frank Carlucci, Morton Abramovitz, S. Waterman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Janusz Bugajski, Henry Kissinger, and many others.
For four years he was also a member of the board of the CSIS organization, in the committee led by Henry Kissinger.
From there, Behgjet Pacolli managed to open every door that needed to be opened to create the conditions for the declaration of Kosovo as an independent state. The lobbying mission of "Kosova New Alliance", by Pacolli and other members of this organization, was considered fulfilled at the moment when President Bush, during his visit to Tirana, in June 2007, declared that "Kosovo should be a state, a republic independent, now".
From this moment Behgjet Pacolli returned to Kosovo.
At the insistence of some of his friends, the until then lobbying company, Aleanca Kosova e Re (AKR) changes its function and turns into a political party.
In the 2007 elections, AKR became the third party and led the parliamentary opposition in Kosovo, giving a great contribution to the declaration of Kosovo as an independent state on February 17, 2008. During this period, even though in the opposition, Behgjet Pacolli continued to give his contribution to the achievement of international recognition of the citizenship of Kosovo.
President of Kosovo
In 2011, Behgjet Pacolli was elected the 3rd President of the Republic of Kosovo.
Immediately after being sworn in as president of the Republic, Behgjet Pacolli began a very dynamic activity at the head of the state. During the first days as president of Kosovo, Behgjet Pacolli visited the north of Kosovo for the first time after the war, as a territory where the authority and sovereignty of the state of Kosovo rested.
Pacolli made two state visits as president of Kosovo, to Albania and Macedonia. During this period he launched the idea of creating the Balkan Commonwealth, as a strategy of unifying a common economic market that would promote economic development in these countries.
After less than two months, he withdraws from this post due to deliberate "mistakes" in the election procedure, which were caused by the then Speaker of the Parliament of Kosovo, who absolutely also claimed the post of president. He had allowed those "mistakes" that created a precedent for an equally absurd decision of the Constitutional Court. This decision was strongly opposed as absurd by the international members of this court (Robert Carolan, judge, Almiro Rodrigues, judge), but it was approved by local judges who, as it was later found, were politically influenced against Mr. Behgjet Pacolli. Despite the fact that Behgjet Pacolli could continue to exercise the office of president, he was withdrawn arbitrarily, without causing any institutional trauma.
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
After withdrawing from the post of president, in order to avoid the institutional blockade in an important period for the country, Mr. Behgjet Pacolli decided to continue co-governance and took the post of the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo. During this period, Behgjet Pacolli successfully led the lobbying campaign for the recognition and factorization of Kosovo as a state in the international arena, holding meetings with more than 100 presidents, prime ministers, or kings from different countries of the world.
Despite the fact that the Serbian state's counter-campaign against Kosovo and Mr. Behgjet Pacolli was extraordinary, during this period Kosovo managed to exceed the expected number of 110 recognitions from around the world.
Behgjet Pacolli continues to lead the Kosova e Re Alliance, having as its sole mission the economic development of the Republic of Kosovo, the improvement of citizens' lives and especially the perspective of the youth.
From 2017 to 2020, Mr. Behgjet Pacolli served as Deputy. The first Prime Minister and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo.