Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar has won a runoff vote to become Slovenia’s next president and the small European Union country’s first female head of state.

Early results of Slovenia's presidential election show a a right-wing politician and a centrist independent candidate heading for a runoff vote.

Slovenia’s president has appointed the leader of a liberal-green party that won last month’s election as the country's new prime minister designate.

The winner of last weekend parliamentary vote in Slovenia says he hopes to have a new government formed by mid-June.

Slovenia’s president Borut Pahor has rejected in an interview with the AP that the increasingly autocratic policies of the country’s government could hurt its upcoming European Union presidency, saying the small Alpine state will stay on its traditional liberal course.

Serbia and Kosovo have clashed at a summit of Western Balkan nations over border changes in the region, which is still recuperating from bloody civil wars in the 1990s.