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Current AffairsIvan Gasparovic elected Slovak president in surprise vote

19-04-2004 | Pavla Horáková, Rob Cameron

New Slovak president Ivan Gasparovic, photo: CTK Voters in neighbouring Slovakia have chosen the country's new president. In the second round of voting on Saturday, Slovakia's former parliament chairman Ivan Gasparovic was elected as Slovak president. With 60 percent of the vote, he beat his one-time close ally, controversial former prime minister Vladimir Meciar. Earlier Pavla Horakova spoke to Rob Cameron who had followed the election in Bratislava and she first asked him to tell us more about the president-elect.  More

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