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Right-wing politician expected to take lead in Slovenia' s presidential election
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Right-wing politician expected to take lead in Slovenia's presidential election Pol ls opened in the Slovenian presidential election on Sunday with former foreign minister in the rightist government, Anze Logar, expected to lead the seven candidates after the first round of voting. Polling stations close at 7 p.m. (1700 GMT) and first results are expected about two hours later.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterAlthough the role is mostly ceremonial, the president leads the army and also nominates several top officials, including the central bank governor. Most of the nominations have to be confirmed by parliament. The EU and NATO member state's new president will replace Borut Pahor, a former fashion model who served two terms and is often referred in public as the Instagram president for his use of the social network.The latest opinion polls by television station Pop TV suggest Logar will win the first round with 26.9% of the votes, followed by lawyer Natasa Pirc Musar with 19% and ruling coalition candidate Milan Brglez on 12.9%. Read more:
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Polling stations close at 7 p.m. Mitchell became head of the Republican National Lawyers Association and chair of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based legal group best known for suing states and localities to purge voters from their rolls, and joined the board of the Bradley Foundation, a conservative behemoth with $1 billion in assets that has distributed grants to groups engaged in watching over elections, including True the Vote. (1700 GMT) and first results are expected about two hours later. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters. com Register Although the role is mostly ceremonial, the president leads the army and also nominates several top officials, including the central bank governor. The conservative media latched onto the idea that the IRS was biased against all sorts of conservative and tea-party groups, and a top leader of the agency was forced out in what was one of the bigger scandals of the Obama era. Most of the nominations have to be confirmed by parliament. The EU and NATO member state's new president will replace Borut Pahor, a former fashion model who served two terms and is often referred in public as the Instagram president for his use of the social network. The latest opinion polls by television station Pop TV suggest Logar will win the first round with 26.) In 2010, Mitchell served as a campaign lawyer for Sharron Angle, a far-right Nevada lawmaker running against then–Senate majority leader Harry Reid.9% of the votes, followed by lawyer Natasa Pirc Musar with 19% and ruling coalition candidate Milan Brglez on 12. 9%. Logar, 46, is a member of the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) of former Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who lost April's general election to the environmentalist Freedom Movement of new Prime Minister Robert Golob. Mitchell remained at Foley & Lardner throughout Trump’s first term, representing Steve Bannon’s nonprofit that later came under investigation for defrauding donors who gave money to build a border wall. Pirc Musar, a 54-year-old former TV presenter who is now an influential lawyer, campaigned on human rights, the rule of law and social welfare issues. Musar is vying to become the first female president of the ex-Yugoslav republic. "While the president’s role in Slovenia is largely ceremonial, the election result will reflect voter support for liberal pro-EU political forces in relation to populist eurosceptic parties," the Teneo consultancy said before the election. On the day after Election Day 2020, Mitchell was in Montana, where she had been helping out a client, Senator Steve Daines, in his reelection race, when Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows asked her to get to Georgia as soon as she could. 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