Prime Minister Is Elected President
From Times Wire Reports
Voters in Slovenia went to the polls to choose a successor to Milan Kucan, the only president the Balkan country has known since it gained independence in 1991.
They chose long-serving Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek, who has led the former Yugoslav republic closer to the West. He won about 56% of the vote, while prosecutor Barbara Brezigar, a political novice who campaigned on a message that her country needs new leadership, got 43.7%.
Kucan was ineligible for reelection under the constitution.
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