Peter Pellegrini is the winner of presidential elections in Slovakia

• Peter Pellegrini is the winner of presidential elections in Slovakia.
• Peter Pellegrini defeated opposition candidate Ivan Korcok.
• Peter Pellegrini is a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
• While Peter Pellegrini got 53% of the vote, Korcok received 47% votes.
• Peter Pellegrini currently serves as Parliament speaker.
• In September 2023, parliamentary elections were won by Fico’s leftist Smer (Direction) party.
• Peter Pellegrini will succeed Zuzana Čaputová, who announced she would not seek re-election.
• In Slovakia, President chooses the Prime Minister after parliamentary elections.
• President swears in the new government and appoints Constitutional Court judges.

Slovakia

• It is a landlocked country in Central Europe.      
• Poland borders it to the north and Ukraine borders it to the east.
• Hungary borders it to the south, Austria borders it to the west and Czech Republic borders it to the North West.  
• Its capital is Bratislava and type of government is unitary parliamentary republic.