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Slovakia to Hold 2nd Round of Presidential Election - Statistical Office

03:24 GMT, 24 March 2024
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BRATISLAVA (Sputnik) - Former Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok won the first round of the presidential election in Slovakia with 42.51% of the votes, while his opponent, the head of the Slovak parliament, Peter Pellegrini, received 37.02%, the data from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic showed on Sunday.
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The turnout in the first round of the Slovak presidential election was 51.91%.
Since none of the candidates received an absolute majority of votes, the future president of the country will be determined during the second round, scheduled for April 6.
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Pellegrini is known to be a close ally of current Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and a supporter of a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian conflict. Korcok, on the other hand, has been vocally supporting Ukraine and a stronger European Union
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