Peter Pellegrini obtains 53.55% of the votes against 46.44% for pro-European diplomat Ivan Korcok. He succeeds the liberal Zuzana Caputova.
Aged 48, the elected president is close to the government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The war in Ukraine, a campaign issue, was one of the key elements of the electoral campaign in this country of 5.4 million inhabitants. The president ratifies international treaties, appoints key judges and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.