Former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, who has pledged to make Croatia a tolerant country turning the page on its wartime past, has won Sunday’s presidential runoff, defeating the incumbent conservative leader.
Milanovic, the Social Democrat candidate, took fifty-two point seven percent of the vote, while President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who had tried to unite a fractured right wing, garnered forty-seven point three percent, according to results based on a vote count at nearly all polling stations released by the electoral commission. The turnout was about fifty-five percent.
The second-round election was held just days after Croatia took the helm of the European Union for a six-month period that will be dominated by Brexit and the bloc’s enlargement.
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