Belgrade - The Serbian parliament convened Wednesday for the first time since the May 11 snap elections, but still amid uncertainty over who would head the next government.
The assembly met to beat a legal deadline by verifying the mandate of the 250 legislators, but, without a majority coalition, it was not expected to appoint the speaker and staff the committees and offices.
The pro-European coalition led by President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party emerged from the poll with the most seats, 102, but was still without a partner for a majority.
Tadic's main rivals, Tomislav Nikolic's ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party claimed 78 seats and allied itself with caretaker Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, with 30.