Social democratic parliamentary speaker Peter Pellegrini has been elected Slovakia’s new president, according to the official results released on Sunday. Pellegrini, 48, won 53.1% of ballots in the run-off vote on Saturday, comfortably beating liberal former foreign minister Ivan Korčok who garnered 46.9% of votes, according to the electoral commission. Voter turnout stood at 61.1%, significantly higher than in the first round of voting in the presidential elections on March 23. Incumbent President Zuzana Čaputová did not run for a second five-year term despite her continued popularity. She is…