An exit poll suggests a leftist challenger is set to beat the conservative incumbent in Croatia's presidential election. Few left-wing candidates have won major office in central Europe in recent years.
Zoran Milanovic, the liberal opposition candidate, right, waves after voting with his spouse Sanja Music Milanovic at a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Voters in Croatia on Sunday cast ballots to choose a new president in a fiercely contested runoff race, with a liberal opposition candidate posing a challenge to the conservative incumbent as the country presides the European Union during a crucial period.
If confirmed in the official vote tally, the result would mean a blow for the ruling conservatives while Croatia holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, and before a parliamentary election later this year. Grabar Kitarovic’s associates said they will wait for the official results, but admitted that the gap between the two candidates as shown in the exit poll suggested major changes can’t be expected.
Milanovic won slightly more votes than Grabar Kitarovic in the first round. There are 3.8 million voters in Croatia, a country of 4.2 million that is also a member of NATO. Upon voting in the capital of Zagreb, Milanovic said the presidential election was a first step toward changes.Grabar Kitarovic said “today we decide what Croatia will look like in the next several years.”
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