Zoran Milanovic obtained nearly half of the votes within the first spherical of the Croatian presidential election. The second spherical will likely be held on January 12, as no candidate has gained an absolute majority.

In Croatia , after counting 100% of the votes within the first spherical of the presidential election, the nation's head of state Zoran Milanovic received . UNN reviews this close to the info of the State Election Fee.

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Croatia's incumbent President Zoran Milanovic, a critic of NATO and the EU, received the primary spherical of presidential elections on Sunday with 49.09 % help.

Dragan Primorac of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union get together, who got here in second, garnered 19.35 %.

Since not one of the candidates gained an absolute majority, Croatia will maintain a second spherical on January 12.

Addendum

As Politico wrote, throughout his election marketing campaign, President Milanovic sought to capitalize on a sequence of scandals that noticed greater than 30 ministers from the prime minister's get together resign or be fired over corruption throughout Andrej Plenkovic's mandate.

He additionally criticized Plenković for his pro-European stance, calling him "an errand boy" for European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, and referred to as immigration Croatia's essential downside.