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Slovakia: pro-EU Zuzana Čaputov wins first round of presidential election
Source: Reuters
Slovakia: pro-EU Zuzana Čaputová wins first round of presidential election
Reuters in Bratislava
Sun 17 Mar 2019 02.07 GMT
An anti-corruption campaigner with no experience of public office has won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election, as voters spurned the ruling Smer party a year after the murder of an investigative journalist.
Environmental lawyer Zuzana Čaputová won 40.5% of the vote, with 99.4 of the ballots counted on Sunday, far ahead of the Smer candidate, Maroš Šefčovič, who had 18.7%.
The pair will now contest a second-round run-off on 30 March.
The 45-year-old Čaputová, a pro-European liberal who belongs to the small, non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia party, would stand out among the populist nationalist politicians on the rise across much of Europe.
Slovakia’s president does not wield day-to-day power but has veto power over the appointments of senior prosecutors and judges, pivotal in the fight against corruption.
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Reuters in Bratislava
Sun 17 Mar 2019 02.07 GMT
An anti-corruption campaigner with no experience of public office has won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election, as voters spurned the ruling Smer party a year after the murder of an investigative journalist.
Environmental lawyer Zuzana Čaputová won 40.5% of the vote, with 99.4 of the ballots counted on Sunday, far ahead of the Smer candidate, Maroš Šefčovič, who had 18.7%.
The pair will now contest a second-round run-off on 30 March.
The 45-year-old Čaputová, a pro-European liberal who belongs to the small, non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia party, would stand out among the populist nationalist politicians on the rise across much of Europe.
Slovakia’s president does not wield day-to-day power but has veto power over the appointments of senior prosecutors and judges, pivotal in the fight against corruption.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/17/slovakia-pro-eu-zuzana-caputova-wins-first-round-of-presidential-election
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