Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar has won a run-off to become Slovenia’s first female head of state, and said she will seek to bridge the deep left-right divide in the Alpine nation of 2 million.
\nAccording to international media reports, with nearly all of the votes counted in the small European Union nation on Sunday, Pirc Musar led Slovenia’s conservative former foreign minister Anze Logar by 54 percent to 46 percent.
\nMusar’s victory boosts the country’s liberal bloc following the center-left coalition victory in Slovenia\u2019s parliamentary election in April.
\n\u201cMy first task will be to open a dialogue among all Slovenians,\u201d she said as her election team celebrated. \u201cIn the democratic election, Slovenians have shown what kind of a country they want.\u201d
\n\u201cAll my life I\u2019ve advocated the same values: democracy, human rights, tolerance. It\u2019s time to stop dealing with the past. Many things have to be done in the future,\u201d she declared.
\nLogar conceded defeat, saying he hopes Pirc Musar \u201cwill carry out all the promises\u201d that she made during the campaign.
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