<p>PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s foreign minister on Tuesday resigned following allegations she had rigged the vote to win a seat in the new parliament.</p>
<p>Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla, 37, posted a letter announcing her resignation on her Facebook page, rejecting allegations in the media that her husband had bribed election officials to help her gain ballots and a parliamentary seat in the Feb. 14 election.</p>
<p>Haradinaj-Stublla also resigned from her political party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, or AAK, which won eight seats. She also asked prosecutors to investigate the allegations.</p>
<p>Her move won’t have much impact since she belonged to a caretaker Cabinet operating until the new parliament convenes and elects the government.</p>
<p>Acting Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti nominated his deputy, Besnik Tahiri, to her post.</p>
<p>Final results showed that the left-wing Self-Determination Movement, or Vetevendosje!, led by Albin Kurti won 58 seats in the 120-seat Parliament. </p>
<p>Kurti has said he will ask for the seats from the country’s non-Serb minority to set up his Cabinet, and not the AAK.</p>
<p>Kosovo has always held early elections since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008, with no prime minister since then holding office for a full four-year term. </p>
<p>Kosovo’s independence came a decade after a brutal 1998-1999 war between separatist ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb forces, which ended after a 78-day NATO air campaign that drove Serb troops out and a peacekeeping force moved in. </p>
<p>Most Western nations have recognized Kosovo, but not Serbia and its allies Russia and China.</p>
