Polls suggest Croatian Democratic Union could lose majority to Social Democrat-led coalition headed by populist president
Croatian voters are going to the polls in a high-stakes parliamentary election that could significantly change the country’s pro-western stance on issues including European support for
The outspoken president’s decision shocked the country, sparked a bitter war of words between the two longstanding rivals, and turned a predictable race into a far more close-run affair, even though Croatia’s top court barred Milanović from running.the president must first resign since party-political activities were incompatible with the mainly ceremonial office, prompting him to call the judges “peasants” and their judgment “illiterate”.
But opposition to what many critics see as a pattern of corruption and nepotism has grown, with Plenković’s recent appointment to state attorney general of a high-ranking HDZ-affiliated judge, Ivan Turudić, sparking street protests. The SDP is projected to win about 44 seats, three more than in 2020, with the rightwing anti-immigration Homeland Movement on track to come third with 14 and the ecological Mozemo party on nine, making the right and the greens kingmakers.
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