
Natasa Pirc Musar, a liberal lawyer and former TV presenter, is on course to become Slovenia’s first female president after preliminary results showed the 54-year-old has won the presidential runoff.
Pirc Musar, backed by the centre-left government, won 54 percent of the votes in Sunday’s runoff while her rival, right-wing politician and former foreign minister Anze Logar, won 46 percent, according to election commission data based on 77 percent of the votes counted.