Favourite and incumbent Borut Pahor duly won the run-off election for the Slovenian Presidency today, but with a narrower majority than some commentators had anticipated. The former Social Democrat Prime Minister, standing in this election as an independent, took 53 per cent of the votes cast, a slender six-point advantage over challenger Marjan Sarec, Mayor […]
Category: Slovenia
Election result: Slovenia Presidency 2017, first round
After months of opinion polling giving him enormous leads, the only question in yesterday’s Slovenian Presidential election was whether incumbent Borut Pahor would secure the 50 per cent of votes needed to win on the first round. Up against a field of eight varied opponents, the former Prime Minister and long-time Social Democrat (running as […]