Slovenia elects first woman president in a run-off vote

Liberal candidate Natasa Pirc Musarat (Darko Bandic/AP)

Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar has won a run-off to become Slovenia’s first female head of state, and said her first task would be to bridge a deep left-right divide in the Alpine nation of two million people.

With nearly all of the votes counted in the small European Union nation, Ms Pirc Musar led Slovenia’s conservative former foreign minister Anze Logar by 54% to 46%.