Michaela Kovacova

The higher the election turnout, the more representative the election result, presidential candidate and Parliamentary Chair Peter Pellegrini said after casting his ballot at a grammar school in Bratislava on Saturday.

Slovaks are electing a new president on Saturday, with the polling stations being open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

SNS leader and Parliamentary Vice-chair Andrej Danko withdrew his presidential candidacy on Monday, announcing this at a joint news conference with another presidential candidate, ex-minister of justice Stefan Harabin.

The president must represent Slovakia regardless of the interests of world powers, while in the domestic political arena he or she must constantly emphasise to the government the need to improve the living standards of the population, presidential candidate Marian Kotleba has said.

The current form of elections in Slovakia doesn't need any fundamental changes, presidential candidate Stefan Harabin has stated in an interview for TASR, adding that he would change neither the powers, nor the status of the head of state.

The Slovak Constitution doesn't give many powers to the president of the country, presidential candidate Andrej Danko has stated in an interview for TASR, adding that the presidential election should be put back into the hands of parliament.