Slovenia elects first female president in a run-off vote

Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar wins a run-off vote to become Slovenia’s next president.

Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar has won a run-off to become Slovenia’s first female head of state, saying she will seek to bridge the deep left-right divide in the Alpine nation of two million.

With nearly all of the votes counted in the small European Union nation on Sunday, Pirc Musar led Slovenia’s conservative former Foreign Minister Anze Logar by 54 percent to 46…