Peter Pellegrini, speaker of the Slovak Parliament, and Ivan Korcok, former foreign minister, will face each other in the second round. The second round of voting will take place on April 6.

The Slovak Statistics Office says PellegRini obtains at this stage 40.39% of the votes against 36.90% for Ivan KorCok. The first round of the presidential election took place on Saturday, with the winner going into a second round on April 5.