Presidential election 2019, page 2

Citizens of Slovakia elected their new president in 2019. Zuzana Čaputová is the first woman to be elected president in Slovakia. Čaputová won the March 30, 2019 runoff round of the presidential election over Maros Šefčovič.

Zuzana Čaputová is the fifth Slovak president.
Zuzana Čaputová

Presidential election: Čaputová wins the election

These are the preliminary results of the second round of Slovakia’s presidential election.

Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič in one of the debates organised by private broadcaster TV Markíza.

Presidential election run-off: Čaputová or Šefčovič?

The winner will replace Andrej Kiska in the presidential seat for the next five years.

Slovakia shouldn’t treat voters living abroad like foreigners

People who are not allowed to vote in their homeland will be more likely to renounce it.

It seems the next president was decided in the first round

Zuzana Čaputová is on course for victory.

Supreme Court judge Štefan Harabin during his presidential campaign in 2019.

Harabin files complaint over the presidential election

Supreme Court Judge Štefan Harabin came third in the first round of the presidential election, meaning he did not advance to the run-off.

Second round runner-ups Zuzana Čaputová and Maroš Šefčovič

Čaputová leads in the poll before the run-off

She is supported mostly by young people and respondents with a university education.

Supreme Court judge Štefan Harabin.

Blog: Open those windows, please

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Liptovské Kľačany mayor Ján Hollý raising a glass with one of the first-time voters.

Bizarre election day: From lucky winner to drinking first-time voters

The district of Prešov became the centre of this year's election strangeness.

Bratislava airport

Slovaks invested in flight ticket due to elections. Some cost hundreds of euros

The sale of flight tickets increased 94 percent compared with the same period in 2018.

These election statistics might surprise you

Who dominated in Slovakia’s districts in the first round of the presidential elections? Plus figures breaking down how men and women may have voted and which political parties they favour.

Maroš Šefčovič

Šefčovič made it to the second round, despite "ball and chain"

The candidate of the strongest political party in Slovakia could have achieved a better result without Smer.

Štefan Harabin

Anti-system and extremist candidates did not prevail but showed their strength

Harabin did not make it to the second round, but together with Kotleba, they gained 25-percent support.

Zuzana Čaputová, the winner of the first round of presidential elections in Slovakia

Čaputová represents a rare victory for liberal forces in central Europe

A world media report about the victory of Zuzana Čaputová in the presidential election.

Maros Sefcovic and his wife Helena voted in the morning.
Voters in Stará Turá (Trenčín Region)

A vote for Čaputová and against Smer

Extremists are out of the game, but we’re not safe from hearing their ideas.

Zuzana Caputova on election night

Election results: Čaputová and Šefčovič will go head-to-head in the second round

These are the preliminary results of the first round of Slovakia's presidential election.

A drunk man threw the ballot box on the ground outside the polling station.

Drunk man stole ballot box and threw it outside the polling station

The moratorium will be prolonged until 23:16 due to the curious incident.