Bekim Baliqi

Talks on forming a new government in Kosovo are due to start soon after the opposition Vetevendosje party came first in Sunday's snap parliamentary elections.

The party has made clear it wishes to seek to form a coalition government with another former opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK.

Kosovo's electoral system favours alliances. Yet the co-ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, part of four successive governments since Kosovo's 2008 secession from Serbia, looks like being left out in the cold, raising doubts about its chances of retaining power.

Kosovo's new Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, one of the fiercest critics of the controversial border deal with Montenegro, wasted no time on his first day in office on Tuesday before firing the State Commission on Demarcation and appointing another team, which will be in charge of finding a solution to the deadlock.

After the prosecution in Kosovo opened a probe into seven more officials of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK - accused of involvement in a wiretap scandal - the party that has long dominated the country is in danger of crumbling, some experts say.