Melania lawyer is first Slovenian female president

Slovenians yesterday elected a lawyer linked to former US first lady Melania Trump as the country’s first woman president, according to partial results with more than half the votes counted.

Natasa Pirc Musar (pictured), backed by the centre-left government, beat ex-foreign minister Anze Logar, a veteran of conservative politics, in a presidential run-off in the EU country of two million people. Pirc Musar, a lawyer who headed the country’s data protection authority for a decade, won some 54% of the vote, ahead of Logar who got nearly 46%, with 55% of ballots counted. “We need to unify to be able to do something good for our beautiful homeland,” she told reporters at one of her family properties on the outskirts of Ljubljana crowded with supporters as results started to trickle in.