Post-election polls show Croatian President Zoran Milanović leading in Croatia’s presidential elections on Sunday. The incumbent president is in the lead with 51.48 percent of the votes, several Croatian television channels report.
If this result remained the same, he would have won in the first round of voting. Opinion polls predicted a second election.
Candidate of ruling party HDZ in second place
In second place is the candidate of the ruling HDZ party Dragan Primorac with 19.29 percent, ahead of third-placed Marija Selak Raspudić with 8.84 percent. The polls predicted such an order, but suggested the final decision would not come until the second round of voting.
The polls closed at 7 p.m. Voter turnout at the elections was around 36 percent at 4:30 p.m., lower than five years ago. The state election commission will release the first partial results after 8 p.m.
Leftists and liberals supported the incumbents
The 58-year-old Milanović, who is supported by the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, and a number of smaller left-wing and liberal parties, entered the election campaign as the clear favorite with the slogan “The president as president.” In the campaign, in which he appeared rather reserved, Milanović presented himself as the only barrier protecting the country from a complete takeover by the HDZ. The president has already taken this position for the past five years as a strong opposition to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and his HDZ.
Source: Krone
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