Monday, March 5, 2012

Ex-ambassador Danilo Tuerk _ from U.N. to run for presidency

Danilo Tuerk spent years representing his country in international affairs. Now he seems poised to rule at home, as exit polls showed him winning Slovenia's presidential elections Sunday.

Tuerk, 55, appeared to have won overwhelmingly, with 70 percent of votes, two prominent exit polls showed. Preliminary unofficial results, released by the state-run Electoral Commission after about 10 percent of votes were counted, confirmed the trend.

"I'm very pleased," Tuerk said, as his supporters applauded and whistled.

Tuerk, supported by the leftist opposition parties, ran in a run-off vote against conservative ex-Prime Minister Lojze Peterle, …

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