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.
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