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Liberal lawyer becomes first female president of Slovakia

By Yan Dongjie in London | China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-02 07:38

A lawyer with little political experience has been named as Slovakia's first female president after winning the election on a second round of voting.

Riding a wave of public protests against corruption, Zuzana Caputova, who represents the liberal Progressive Slovakia party and only entered politics last year, defeated high-profile diplomat Maros Sefcovic, nominated by the governing Smer - SD party, in a second-round runoff vote.

Having scored 20 percent more votes than Sekcovic in the first round of voting, Caputova scored 58.3 percent in the second round, ahead of Sefcovic's 41.7 percent.

Liberal lawyer becomes first female president of Slovakia

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