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Bratislava. Slovaks go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. (Photo: Miroslav Petrasko)

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How a Romani woman got a hug from an ultra-right voter

Bratislava. Slovaks go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. (Photo: Miroslav Petrasko)

On Saturday (30 March) voters in Slovakia will go to the polls to elect a new president, in a second-round run-off between anti-corruption campaigner Zuzana Caputova and current EU commissioner Maros Sefcovic. In the first round, the hard-right anti-immigrant People's Party Our Slovakia party of Marian Kotloba was defeated - but still polled 10 percent. Here Irena Bihariova recou...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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