President Barbie could be the true deal in spite of everything.
Sporting a vivid pink blazer on Wednesday, Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani had a message to shut out a press convention for journalists.
“This Barbie is the president,” she stated, gesturing at herself because the room erupted in applause.
Osmani — who was elected as Kosovo’s second feminine president in 2021 — has been an advocate for gender equality within the small Balkan nation, talking out in opposition to violence in opposition to ladies and presiding over probably the most gender-equal Cupboard in Kosovo’s historical past.
“In schooling, sports activities, tradition, enterprise, science or politics, ladies have demonstrated that they’re able to reaching the heights of success … To all the ladies and ladies of the republic, at present and day-after-day: By no means cease dreaming, however most significantly, by no means cease believing,” Osmani stated in an announcement on Worldwide Girls’s Day this 12 months.
Barbie, the summer season 2023 Hollywood blockbuster, has one other shocking hyperlink to Pristina. The movie features a cameo by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa, who was appointed Ambassador Barbie — sorry, honorary ambassador — of Kosovo in 2022.
There’s at present no phrase on whether or not Barbieland acknowledges Kosovo.
CORRECTION: This text has been corrected to notice that Vjosa Osmani is Kosovo’s second feminine president.