Ashkali Party for Integration

Ashkali Party for Integration

Partia Ashkalinjëve për Integrim
Ashkali Party for Integration Partia Ashkalinjëve për Integrim
Leader	Bekim Arifi
Founded	5 November 2010; 13 years ago
Headquarters	Kosovo Polje, Kosovo
Ideology	Ashkali minority interests
Assembly	1 / 120
	Politics of Kosovo; Political parties; Elections;

The Ashkali Party for Integration (Albanian: Partia Ashkalinjëve për Integrim, PAI) is an Ashkali political party in Kosovo registered on 5 November 2010. Their headquarters are located in Kosovo Polje.

Electoral performance

Assembly of Kosovo
Year	Popular vote	% of vote	Overall seats won	R AE seats	Seat change
2010	1,386	0.20	1 / 120	1 / 4	1
2014	1,583	0.22	1 / 120	1 / 4
2017	2,107	0.29	1 / 120	1 / 4
2019	3,113	0.37	1 / 120	1 / 4
2021	2,138	0.25	1 / 120	1 / 4

History

In the 2010 parliamentary elections the party received 0.2% of the vote and won one of the seats reserved for ethnic minorities.^[1] It retained its seat in the 2014,^[2] 2017, and 2021 elections. The party came to international attention in early 2021, when the Constitutional Court deemed the vote of PAI MP Etem Arifi during the confirmation of the cabinet invalid. Since this put the cabinet under the necessary majority threshold for confirmation, it led to a snap election.^[3]