Slovenia elects first woman president in a runoff vote

Liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar won a runoff Sunday to become Slovenia's first female head of state, and said she will seek to bridge the deep left-right divide in the Alpine nation of 2 million.

With nearly all of the votes counted in the small European Union nation, Pirc Musar led Slovenia's conservative former Foreign Minister Anze Logar by 54% to 46%.

A prominent lawyer, Pirc Musar had represented former U.S. first lady Melania Trump in copyright and other cases in her native Slovenia. She trailed Logar in the first round of voting two weeks ago. Pirc Musar will succeed President Borut Pahor, a centrist politician who had already served two terms.