Peter Pellegrini, speaker of the Slovak Parliament, and Ivan Korcok, former foreign minister, will face each other in the second round of the presidential election, after coming first in the first round on Saturday, partial results show.
Peter Pellegrini obtains at this stage 40.39% of the votes against 36.90% for Ivan Korcok, after the counting of 64% of the votes, indicated the Slovak Statistics Office.
The second round of voting will take place on April 6.