The 120-seat parliament, which convened in an extraordinary session for two days, gave 71 votes to Osmani amid an opposition boycott, making her Kosovo’s second female president.

She has previously served as the Chairwoman of the Assembly of Kosovo and as acting President of Kosovo after the resignation of former president Hashim Thaçi.

She is a professor at the University of Pristina, RIT Kosovo; she has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Osmani was the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party's candidate for prime minister in the 2019 Kosovan parliamentary election.

In the Kosovan presidential election, she was the joint candidate for president of the Vetëvendosje party and her own party Guxo.