The early election seems to have mixed up the cards in the parliament, as the Party of Miro Cerar (SMC), founded by the jurist only in early June, won the vote in a landslide with 34.9%, securing 36 seats.

The Democrats (SDS) came in second with 20.71% and 21 seats, followed by the Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) with 10.18% and ten seats, the official final results confirm.

The Social Democrats (SD) managed to get 5.98%, followed closely by the biggest surprise of the election, the United Left (ZL), with 5.97%. Each of the two parties claimed six seats in Slovenia's 90-member National Assembly.

New Slovenia (NSi) got 5.59% and five seats, while the Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (ZaAB), founded by the outgoing prime minister, got 4.38% and four seats. Two seats are reserved for the Italian and Hungarian national minorities.

Meanwhile, the Peoples' Party (SLS) failed to muster enough support to climb over the 4% threshold to the legislature.

Only 26 MPs from the outgoing line-up have been re-elected. Among the 90 MPs 32 will be women, four more than in the past two and a half years since the December 2011 election.

The most likely new prime minister designate, Miro Cerar, has already met the president and launched coalition-building talks today.

Pahor told him last week that he would talk to parliamentary party representatives about the PM-designate nominee within a week after the parliament's maiden session.

The session will be chaired by Marjana Kotnik Poropat, the oldest MP, but the preparations for the session will be carried out by the current speaker, Janko Veber.

He will call, expectedly for Monday, a college of deputy group leaders to lay down the agenda for the session and the seating order, as well as several other matters. So far only four parties have named their deputy group heads.

Jože Tanko will remain in charge of the SDS group, DeSUS party president Karl Erjavec will head the party's MPs, while Matjaž Han will be the temporary group head for the SD and Matej Tonin will stay at the helm of the NSi group.

At the first session, the MPs will appoint the Credentials and Privileges Commission that will draft a proposal for approval of terms for the new MPs.

The approval of terms is usually just a procedural step, but this time the approval of SDS president Janez Janša's term is uncertain.

Janša has been been found guilty of corruption and started serving a two-year prison sentence on 20 June. He is challenging the conviction at the Supreme Court.

The new National Assembly line-up starts serving the new term if the terms of more than a half of the MPs is approved. After this is complete, the MPs appoint a speaker in a secret vote with a simple majority.