Pre-election polling suggest the left-leaning incumbent president Zoran Milanovic, who is an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine, will win.
Polls have opened across Croatia in the country’s second round presidential election which sees incumbent Zoran Milanovic running against Dragan Primorac, the candidate backed by the prime minister and his government.
In the first round, held on 29 December, Milanovic won 49.7% of the vote against seven other candidates, just shy of half of the ballots needed to secure an outright victory.
He was a long-time leader of the Social Democrats and spent most of his career in opposition. Milanovic was then the country’s prime minister from late 2011 to early 2016.
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