In Slovakia, Parliament President Peter Pellegrini will be the next head of state. The government candidate received around 53 percent of the vote in the runoff election for the office of president on Saturday. The electoral commission announced this on Sunday night. Originally, surveys and initial partial results had suggested a narrower result. The official … Read more
The first round of the presidential election in Slovakia is behind us. Slovak elections are one-day, all polling stations closed on Saturday at 22:30. The final election results showed that the favored candidates Ivan Korčok and Peter Pellegrini advanced to the second round, which takes place on April 6. Korčok won 42.5 percent of the … Read more
According to a March survey by the agency Ipsos pro Diary of N Pellegrini won 37.4 percent of the votes and Korčok 36.6 percent of the votes in the first round of elections. The former president of the Supreme Court Štefan Harabin (66), who received the vote of 11.3 percent of the respondents, would finish … Read more