Based on the official partial results, it can be said to be certain that the leftist Natasa Pirc Musar, who ran as an independent, won the second round of the Slovenian presidential election - she will become the country's first female president.
According to data published by the Slovenian election commission based on a 97 percent accuracy rate, in the second round held on Sunday, Pirc Musar, supported by the center-left parties, won 54 percent of the votes, while the right-wing former foreign minister Anze Logar, also running as an independent, won 46 percent of the votes.
The votes cast abroad have not yet been submitted to the central election committee, but these votes cannot significantly affect the result, so the victory of Pirc Musar can be assumed.
According to the election commission's data, 52.13 percent of those entitled to vote, about 855,000 people, went to the polls in the second round, slightly more than in the first round.
Natasa Pirc Musar is the elected president of Slovenia. Photo: Jure Makovec / AFP)
The new head of state is expected to be sworn in on December 23.
Pirc Musar's program includes the reform of the health and pension system, the fight against climate change, and security and defense policy.
Natasa Pirc Musar, 54, was born in 1968 in Ljubljana. In 1992, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. He started his career as a journalist. He worked for six years at the Slovenian Public Service Television (RTV) and for another five years at the largest commercial channel in Slovenia, POP TV.
He further utilized his knowledge at CNN in the United States, and then studied media for two semesters at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, where he was also an intern at the BBC during his studies.
From 2001, he rowed into economic waters, for two years he led the communication department of the then largest financial company in Slovenia, Aktiva Group. He joined the Supreme Court in 2003. In 2004, he was appointed information commissioner at the suggestion of the former president of the Slovenian parliament, Janez Drnovsek, and was re-elected for another five years in 2009. In 2014, he opened a law office and has been working as a lawyer since then. He was a member and president of several international organizations, his main field being media law and human rights in general. Married, mother of one child.
Source: Híradó.hu
Picture: Natasa Pirc Musar Facebook
