Reuters
Slovakia’s presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini speaks at his headquarters on the day the outcomes of the nation’s presidential election are introduced in Bratislava, Slovakia, on April 7, 2024.
Slovakia’s incumbent speaker of the Nationwide Council Peter Pellegrini received the nation’s second spherical of the presidential election held on Saturday, based on preliminary outcomes revealed by Slovakia’s Statistical Workplace.
Outcomes from 99.47 % of votes confirmed that Pellegrini had 53.38 %, and former overseas minister Ivan Korcok, 46.61 %.
Pellegrini, 48, served as Slovakia’s prime minister from 2018 to 2020. Korcok served because the nation’s overseas minister from 2020 to 2022.
Within the first spherical on March 23, which included 9 candidates, Korcok acquired 42.51 % of the vote, adopted by Pellegrini’s 37.02 %.
The president of Slovakia is chosen in a direct election. Incumbent President Zuzana Caputova, whose 5-year time period expires on June 15 this 12 months, didn’t search re-election.
