Election in Slovenia: Will Slovenia get a female president?

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Created: 11/13/2022, 8:30 p.m

By: Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Tanja Banner

Slovenian presidential candidate Natasa Pirc-Musar.

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Second round of the presidential election in Slovenia: Ex-Foreign Minister Anze Logar and lawyer Natasa Pirc-Musar made it into the runoff.

• In Slovenia, the run-off election will take place in the race for the presidency.

• In the first round at the end of October, former Foreign Minister Anze Logar received the most votes.

  Centre-left candidate Natasa Pirc-Musar came in second.

• The current head of state, Borut Pahor, was not allowed to stand again after two terms in office.

  The results in the ticker.

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86.71 percent of the votes have now been counted – and Nataša Pirc Musar is 53.83 percent ahead of Anže Logar (46.17 percent) in the lead.

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The trend remains: After 60.13 percent of the votes counted, Nataša Pirc Musar comes to 54.09 percent and Anže Logar to 45.91 percent.

So will Slovenia have a female president?

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After counting 22.52 percent of the votes, Nataša Pirc Musar comes to 54.09 percent and Anže Logar to 45.91 percent.

Liberal candidate Natasa Pirc-Musar and former Foreign Minister Anze Logar take part in a televised debate.

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Election in Slovenia: Polling stations are closed

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The polling stations in Slovenia have been closed for half an hour.

It is not yet known who will rule the country in the future.

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In the presidential election in Slovenia, 36.73 percent of those entitled to vote voted by 4 p.m., the National Electoral Commission said.

The polling stations are open until 7 p.m.

Presidential election in Slovenia: Natasa Pirc-Musar and Anze Logar

Natasa Pirc-Musar

, 54 years old and non-affiliated, a former TV presenter who is now an influential lawyer, campaigns for human rights, the rule of law and social causes.

Ex-Foreign Minister

, 46, is a member of the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) of former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who lost April's parliamentary elections to Prime Minister Robert Golob's green freedom movement.

He is formally standing as an independent candidate.

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More than 3000 polling stations have been open since 7 a.m.

Voters have until 7 p.m. to cast their vote.

After casting her vote, the presidential candidate Natasa Pirc-Musar called on the voters to go to the polls.

This is reported by the

.

Anze Logar, who is running with the support of the SDS, SLS and NSi parties, meanwhile voted at a polling station in Ljubljana.

News about the elections in Slovenia: poll sees Natasa Pirc-Musar clearly in the lead

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.: The latest opinion poll by the Slovenian public broadcaster 

shows that the turnout will be around 50 percent, with the most likely result being 56 percent of the vote for Natasa Pirc-Musar and 44 percent for Anze Logar – Natasa Pirc-Musar will win the second round of the presidential elections by 12 percentage points.

This survey was conducted between November 9th and 11th and was published on Friday (November 11th).

News about the election in Slovenia: 4.8 percent of all eligible voters cast their votes early

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From Tuesday (8th) to Thursday (November 10th), 76,725 voters or 4.8 percent of all those eligible to vote cast their votes early.

The Slovenian public broadcaster 

reported about it .

That is more than before the first round of the presidential elections in October, when almost 68,000 voters or around four percent of those eligible to vote cast their votes early.

News about the election in Slovenia: 66 reports of suspected violations of voting secrecy

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Since the beginning of the election rest, which began on Friday (November 11) at midnight following the election campaign for the presidential elections, the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior has received 66 reports of alleged violations by 1 p.m. today, the ministry said with (see also message from 11.55).

The internal supervisory authority is now dealing with 33 cases of alleged violations of voting secrecy.

This is reported by the

.

News about the election in Slovenia: 14.66% turnout at 11 am

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According to data from the national election commission, a total of 14.66% of all eligible voters cast their votes in the presidential election by 11 a.m.

That is one percentage point more than in the first round three weeks ago.

This is reported by the

.

News about the election in Slovenia: 47 reports about alleged violations of voting secrecy

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a.m .: The Slovenian Ministry of the Interior has received 47 reports of suspected violations since the beginning of the election rest, which began on Friday (November 11) at midnight following the campaign for the presidential elections, until 10 a.m. today, the ministry said With.

The Slovenian daily newspaper

reports on this .

The interior supervisory authority is now dealing with 24 cases of alleged violations of voting secrecy.

Meanwhile, 23 reports were found to relate to cases that are already under investigation or unrelated to violations of voting secrecy.

Most of these reports relate to the activities of campaigners in connection with the local elections, which are not subject to voting secrecy this weekend - the local elections will not take place until November 20.

The cases processed by the supervisory authority mainly concern suspected violations of voting secrecy in social media.

Violations of voting secrecy would be punished with fines.

News about the elections in Slovenia: poll sees Natasa Pirc-Musar just ahead

Update from Sunday 13 November 10:50:

 A poll published in Slovenian daily

on Friday (11 November) showed that Pirc-Musar received 51.2% of the vote and Anze Logar 48.8% .

This is reported by the

news agency .

First report from Sunday, November 13, 9 a.m.:

Ljubljana/Frankfurt – The second and decisive round of the presidential election has begun in Slovenia.

Almost 1.7 million citizens entitled to vote are called upon to elect a new president.

Opinion polls recently put the independent, liberal lawyer Natasa Pirc-Musar ahead of the candidate for the opposition right, former Foreign Minister Anze Logar.

News about the elections in Slovenia: Ex-Foreign Minister Anze Logar formally stands as an independent candidate

The confidant of the right-wing national prime minister, Janez Jansa, who was voted out in April, won the first round three weeks ago.

In addition to Pirc-Musar, however, there were also candidates from the Social Democrats and the Left in the running, whose supporters are unlikely to vote for Logar.

The ex-foreign minister would have a chance if turnout remained low, pollsters believe.

Although he formally ran as an independent candidate, he enjoyed the support of Jansa's SDS party's powerful campaign and media machinery.

News about the election in Slovenia: Pirc-Musar would be the first woman to hold the highest office in Slovenia

If, on the other hand, Pirc-Musar wins the runoff, she would be the first woman to hold the highest office in Slovenia.

The outgoing head of state Borut Pahor can no longer stand as president after two terms in office.

The office of the President in the small Balkan state has predominantly representative tasks.

However, the election is seen as a test for the left-liberal government of Prime Minister Robert Golob, who has only been in office since May and replaced the right-wing nationalist Janez Jansa.

Polling stations open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.

The first results are expected later this evening.

The former Yugoslav republic gained independence in 1991.

The small country between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea has been a member of the EU and NATO since 2004.

(cas/dpa)