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31 October 2024
It was all going according to plan. Of all the politicians that the Robert Fico-led coalition could put forward, Peter Pellegrini was the best positioned to fulfil the role. But the first round of the presidential election appears to have jolted his seemingly unshakeable position in the polls.
Pellegrini led the opinion polls long before he even announced he was going to run for president in mid-January. That is why he could afford to hesitate for months while his main competitor Ivan Korčok – who he will now compete against in a run-off round on 6 April – began actively campaigning on social media and around the country much earlier.
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Before the parliamentary election that took place in September 2023, Pellegrini dismissed suggestions that he could run for president, saying he was still young and ready for a post in the executive. Back then, he could still hope for such a good result and perhaps even vie for the prime-ministerial post, which he had already briefly held between 2018-2020 after Robert Fico was forced to resign.
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