BRATISLAVA—Environmental lawyer Zuzana Caputova has vaulted past the Slovak ruling party’s candidate in opinion polls, just weeks before a presidential election which voters may use to give their verdict on government efforts to crack down on corruption.
With the first round of voting on March 16, surveys this week showed Caputova taking a strong lead over Maros Sefcovic, the candidate of former prime minister Robert Fico’s Smer party, which has been in power almost continuously since the mid-2000s.
