The election of Zuzana Caputova as Slovakia's first female president was greeted Sunday as a vote for change, with the anti-graft activist expected to provide a check on a government tarnished after last year's murder of a journalist.
Zuzana Caputova won a clear victory Saturday over the ruling party's candidate. AFP/VLADIMIR SIMICEK
Caputova won 58.4 percent of the vote according to a final tally of results released Sunday, compared with 41.6 percent for her ruling party rival, EU energy commissioner Maros Sefcovic. “Let us look for what connects us. Let us promote cooperation above personal interests,” she said as the results rolled in.
She became a familiar figure in the anti-government protests last year, joining tens of thousands of people who demonstrated after Kuciak’s death. Five people have been charged, including a millionaire businessman with alleged Smer-SD ties who is suspected of ordering the murders over Kuciak’s investigation into his activity.
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