Caputova is a relative political newcomer known for taking part in antigovernment protests in 2018 after the shootings of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee
Slovakian president-elect Zuzana Caputova speaks to a journalist in the front of the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, on March 31 2019. Picture: AFP/VLADIMIR SIMICEK
She is a relative political newcomer known for taking part in mass antigovernment protests in 2018 after the shootings of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee. The uproar toppled the then-premier. Headlines from the country’s newspapers on Sunday suggested the vote was a fresh start for the central European nation of 5.4 million. “Zuzana Caputova gives us hope but the real fight will only come now,” said Dennik N, a leading opposition daily.
Analyst Aneta Vilagi predicted Caputova would “engage in a purposeful confrontation with the government … rather than become an opposition president criticising everything the ruling coalition does.” Yet, “she will represent a stronger system of checks and balances in relation to the government than Sefcovic would have.”
Speaking on the campaign trail, Caputova said she would “initiate systematic changes that would deprive prosecutors and the police of political influence”. Many Slovaks who voted for Sefcovic had said the important position necessitated a man, yet “Caputova won despite her sex,” according to analyst Vilagi. She had been “a strong opponent to Sefcovic more because of her story, her personality, values.”
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