(31 Mar 2019) Zuzana Caputova has been elected as Slovakia's first female president.
With the majority of the votes counted, Caputova prevailed over her rival Maros Sefcovic.
She had 58 per cent of the votes in her favour.
The 45-year-old liberal environmental activist said she accepted the result "with great humbleness and sense of responsibility".
Speaking in front of cheering supporters in Bratislava, she urged Slovakians to "look for things that connect us" and to put the country's interests above "personal gains".
Sefcovic - an establishment figure who is the European Commission Vice President - conceded defeat and congratulated his rival.
Caputova has little experience in politics and attracted voters who are appalled by corruption and mainstream politics.
She only recently became vice chairman of Progressive Slovakia - a party so new it has not had a chance to run in parliamentary elections.
A divorced mother of two, she is in favour of gay rights and opposes a ban on abortion in the conservative Roman Catholic country.
A lawyer by profession, Caputova becomes Slovakia's fifth president since the country gained independence after the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
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