Background
Rexhepi was born in Mitrovica, Province of Kosovo on 3 June 1954.
Rexhepi was born in Mitrovica, Province of Kosovo on 3 June 1954.
He graduated from the University of Prishtina and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in 1985.
He was also the first elected post-war Prime Minister of Kosovo. During the 1999 Kosovo War, Rexhepi joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and spent three months serving as a field doctor. He served as mayor of the Albanian section of Mitrovica, working with United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization peacekeepers to implement ideas to diminish the civil unrest.
As Serbs and Albanians had broken off all dialogue, Rexhepi offered to give up his position in favour of a United Nations administrator, but Serbs rejected this proposal.
On 1 April 2010 Rexhepi was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, replacing Zenun Pajaziti. On 22 February 2011 the Assembly confirmed Rexhepi in his post within the new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi.
He is a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).