Liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia’s presidential election on Saturday.
The 45-year old Caputova, member of a liberal non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia party, is the Euro zone country’s first female president.
She had 58.3 percent of the votes.
The pro-EU political novice has been endorsed by opposition parties and a junior party in the ruling coalition.
Caputova started her acceptance speech by thanking voters in Slovak, as well as in the Hungarian, Czech, Roma and Ruthenian languages.
She said, “I am happy not just for the result but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism, to tell the truth, to raise interest without aggressive vocabulary.”
Slovakia’s president wields little day-to-day power but appoints prime ministers and can veto appointments of senior prosecutors and judges.
Political analysts have said a socially liberal president will mobilize anti-system voters.
Zuzana Caputova faced public fury over corruption, won with the promises of change in the political style.
