PRISTINA, Kosovo >> Preliminary results showed that Prime Minister Albin Kurti ‘s party won Kosovo’s parliamentary election Sunday but without the majority needed to govern alone, as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain stalled and foreign funding for one of Europe’s poorest countries is in question.

With 73% of the votes counted, Kurti’s leftist Self-Determination Movement Party, or Vetevendosje!, won 41.99% which doesn’t give it the majority needed to govern alone, leaving open the possibility the other three contenders could join ranks if he fails to form a Cabinet.

The other challengers are the Democratic Party of Kosovo, or PDK, whose main leaders are detained at an international criminal tribunal at The Hague accused of war crimes, which won 22.68% of the vote. Next with 17.9% support is the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, the oldest party in the country which lost much of its support after the death in 2006 of its leader, Ibrahim Rugova. The third contender is the Alliance for Kosovo’s Future of former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj with 7.56%.

“The people won. Vetevendosje! won. We are the winning subject who is to form the next Cabinet,” Kurti told journalists while groups of celebrating supporters.

Voting ended at 7 p.m. local time “without problems that could violate its integrity,” according to Central Election Commission Valmir Elezi.

The commission’s webpage was down temporarily as it was overloaded “due to the citizens’ high interest to learn the results at the platform,” according to the commission, the main election body.

A preliminary turnout after 92% of the votes counted was 40.59, or 7% lower than four years ago.

The parties made big-ticket pledges to increase public salaries and pensions, improve education and health services, and fight poverty. However, they did not explain where the money would come from, nor how they would attract more foreign investment.