Slovenia elects first woman president

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) — Slovenians on Sunday elected Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer linked to former United States first lady Melania Trump, as the country’s first woman president.

Pirc Musar, backed by the center-left government, beat ex-foreign minister Anze Logar, a veteran of conservative politics, in a presidential run-off in the European Union country of two million people.

Pirc Musar, who headed the country’s data protection authority for a decade, won almost 54 percent of the vote, ahead of Logar who got just over 46 percent, according to the election commission.