A vocal critic of the Government in Slovakia and anti-corruption campaigner, has been elected the country's first female President.
Zuzana Caputova won yesterday's run-off election with 58% of the vote.
That was well ahead of her opponent, EU energy commissioner and the ruling party's candidate, Maros Sefcovic, who ended up with 42% of the vote.
The 45-year-old environmental lawyer told reporters after the results that the country needs to "look for what connects us".
"Let us promote cooperation above personal interests," she said.
Her surprise victory is down, in part, to voter disillusionment with the governing coalition a year after the murder of a journalist investigating high-level corruption plunged the country into crisis.
Caputova was among the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets after Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, were gunned down at home in February 2018.
Ms Caputova is pro-choice and promotes greater rights for same-sex couples, arguing that a child "would be better off with two loving beings of the same sex" than having to grow up in an orphanage.
Never having run for any office before, Ms Caputova concedes that her lack of knowledge in the field of defence and security is a disadvantage.
"I will have to rely on my advisors when it comes to those topics," she said on the campaign trail.
"Also, punctuality is not my strong point," added Ms Caputova, who is divorced and has two teenage daughters.
