Zuzana Caputova, an environmental lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner, is poised to win Slovakia's presidential run-off that will be held on Saturday
Slovakia's presidential candidate Zuzana Caputova speaks after the first unofficial results at a party election headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 16, 2019.
The outspoken government critic will face off against EU energy commissioner Maros Sefcovic, a 52-year-old career diplomat backed by the governing Smer-SD party. Kuciak was about to publish a report on alleged ties between Slovak politicians and the Italian mafia and associated irregularities in EU farm subsidy payments.
"I will not vote for someone supported by oligarchs and their people who have deprived me of my brother and sister-in-law."Junior coalition member Most-Hid, the Hungarian minority party, also called on its supporters to back Caputova. Though the office is largely ceremonial, Caputova has noted that "next year we'll be facing the election of a new attorney general appointed by the new president".
"From the very beginning, I've compared this campaign to climbing a steep mountain. Now we've hit the home stretch," she told supporters."We share her ethical values, her idea of fighting corruption," said Emilia Jurcikova, a resident of the northern town of Dolny Kubin.
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