Croatians vote in election pitting PM Plenkovic against President Milanovic
Al Jazeera
Exit polls expected minutes after voting ends at 7pm (17:00 GMT), with official results due in the coming days.
Croatians are casting ballots in a parliamentary election largely pitting incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic against the country’s president, Zoran Milanovic.
Voters will choose between more than 2,000 candidates in Wednesday’s polls that come as the country wrestles with high inflation, a labour shortage and allegations of official corruption.
Exit polls are expected minutes after voting ends at 7pm (17:00 GMT), with official results due in the coming days.
For months, 54-year-old Plenkovic and his ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) seemed poised for an easy victory that would secure his third term as prime minister.
But in mid-March, Milanovic, a 57-year-old populist, made the surprise announcement that he would challenge Plenkovic and become candidate prime minister for the Social Democrats (SDP).
