(Updates with PDK comments, more details)

By Fatos Bytyci

PRISTINA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The biggest party in Kosovo's government has decided to end its coalition with the smaller Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Deputy Prime Minister Rame Manaj said on Friday.

Speaking to Reuters, Manaj of the LDK said he had received a phone call from the other Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci, who is also deputy party leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), informing him of the coalition changes.

"I have received a call from Kuci and he told me that they have decided to form a coalition with two other parties," Manaj said. "He asked me to inform the president (Fatmir Sejdiu) of the decision before the president learns from the media."

Sejdiu is also the leader of the LDK.

The PDK said its coalition partner had broken the agreement.

"After we realised that the Democratic League of Kosovo had violated the coalition agreement, we decided to review or reshuffle the governing coalition," Kuci told media in Pristina adding that during the day there will be more developments.

Kuci was referring the LDK agreements with other parties in local election run-offs expected next month. Kosovo held local elections on Sunday, the first ones since independence.

Kosovo's public television said a source in the PDK had said the LDK would be replaced by two small parties, Democratic League of Dardania and New Kosova Alliance, and a new coalition agreement will be signed on Friday.

Hashim Thaci became prime minister in 2007 after general elections forming a grand coalition between the two main rivals in the past decade but was seen as a very important step to unite the country's politics before it declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. (Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; editing by Andrew Roche)

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