Presidential election in Slovakia: a second round against a backdrop of war in Ukraine. Former diplomat Ivan Korcok, pro-Western, and Peter Pellegrini, close to the government skeptical of kyiv, face each other in this last round.
“This is the closest presidential race ever,” Vaclav Hrich, director general of the AKO polling institute, told AFP. The anti-European and pro-Russian Stefan Harabin, who came third in the first round with 12% of the vote, did not support any of the candidates before the second round.