3 hours agoOfficial: Los Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Croatia's president elected Zoran Milanovic
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Croatia's new president is former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), show the State Election Commission's results after almost all ongoing elections. He defeated the current president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the second round of elections. According to the KSHZ, based on 99.54 percent [...]
He defeated the current president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the second round of elections.
According to the KSHZ, on the basis of 99.54 per cent of the ballots counted, Milanovic won 52.69 per cent, or about 1,350,000 votes, and Grabar -Kitarovich 47.31 percent, or about 926,000, transmits Kosovas.
The SDP candidate beat out the HDZ candidate in major Croatian cities -- Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osjek.
In the elections, 54.97 percent of the 3.9 million citizens voted eligible.
Croatia's new president was born in Zagreb in 1966, where he graduated from law school. He worked at the Foreign Ministry and European Affairs in the 1990s, and after Ivica Racan's death in 2007, he was elected president of the SDP, Croatia's main centre-left party.
He headed the government of the centre-left coalition between the end of 2011 and early 2016. After losing parliamentary elections when he failed to form a government, he resigned as party chairman and committed himself to private business.
Milanovic campaigned under the slogan “Normically, a president of character”, stressing that he would fight injustice, violence, corruption, protect the weakest and human rights and protect the equality of all citizens.
He will assume his presidency on February 18th.
