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Do we like Nataša Pirc Musar?

Our score: 7 out of 10. A clear record on LGBTQ+ equality and no harmful words of her own turned up, but I couldn't read the coverage of her recent political fights.

Nataša Pirc Musar came to the presidency from outside the usual party machine. She trained as a journalist and TV presenter, then became a lawyer, and later a privacy and information watchdog. In late 2022 she became Slovenia's first woman president, beating the veteran conservative Anže Logar in the runoff.

Before that she was best known abroad as the lawyer who acted for Melania Trump, and the headlines in 2022 made much of it. That job tells you she'll take a client on the other side of the political fence, not what she herself stands for. What she has said and done on rights is a better guide.

On the harm test she comes up well. She was described during the 2022 campaign as a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ rights in her legal work, and as a candidate she welcomed Slovenia's move to full marriage equality and joint adoption for same-sex couples. That followed a Constitutional Court ruling that the old ban breached the constitution.

I found no harmful words of her own on women, migrants, public health or the climate, and no pattern of working with people who push that stuff. That's a gap in what I could read rather than a clean bill, but the pattern that did turn up leans decent.

The recent news is mostly political. She called the March 2026 parliamentary election, which then played out under a cloud of corruption claims aimed at the government. Slovenian outlets also report sharp clashes with the prime minister and some questions about her own links, which her office rejects. I couldn't open that coverage, so I'm not weighing it.

Her record of firsts, and her lawyer's habit of defending people in the public interest, count in her favour. Where you land will depend on how much you weigh the unread recent stoushes against a long, consistent record on equality.