Slovak elected a new president over the weekend and its first ever female head of state. Zuzana Čaputova was a relative outsider just a few months ago but came in first two weeks ago in the first round of voting. Her victory over the weekend is a remarkable rejection of the sort of populist politics that have swept across Central Europe. But it should also be put in the context of an ongoing reaction to the murder last year of the investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee. She defeated a candidate of the powerful Slovak party SMER-SD named Maros Sefcovic by collecting 58 percent of the vote.
