Borut Pahor SD. Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 11 November , with a run-off held on 2 December. In the run-off election, Pahor won with roughly two-thirds of the vote. Under Slovenia's election law, candidates for president require support of either:. Each political party can support only one candidate.
In the election, the president is elected with a majority of the vote. If no candidate receives more than half of votes, the top two candidates meet in the second round of election. Borut Pahor of the Social Democrats had already considered running for the office in the election. In the following election , Pahor was elected to the National Assembly while his party lost the plurality of the votes.
In June , Pahor unsuccessfully ran for re-election as president of the Social Democrats. He received support from the Social Democrats [ 13 ] and also from the Civic List , a Conservative Liberal party in the Slovenian center-right government coalition. Milan Zver entered the election as a candidate of two coalition parties, Slovenian Democratic Party and Nova Slovenija. All three campaigns stated that their activities would be financially austere in accordance with the situation in the country.
Each however, was marked by its own specific style. Pahor carried out a variety of voluntary jobs, and took part in a number of work actions organised by his campaign. Zver participated in numerous political and civil group rallies and similar events across the country.
An important part of the three campaigns were the live radio and television debates. The very first debate between the three candidates occurred on the afternoon of 23 October on Radio Slovenia.
