‘Croatian Trump’ Zoran Milanović Re-Elected

Croatian President Zoran Milanović has recently been re-elected for a second term. In the second round of the presidential election he faced Dragan Primorac, backed by the governing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Zoran Milanović, who has been president of Croatia since 2020, is supported by the opposition, the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Underperforming all previous HDZ results, Dragan Primorac achieved the worst-ever results in the party’s history, securing just 25 per cent of the vote in the second round. Milanović, on the other hand, won a staggering 75 per cent of the vote at a 44 per cent turnout rate. It was clear from the beginning of the race that he had the support of a decisive majority of the populace, and there was a need for a second round only because, with as few as 5,000 votes, he fell short of the required absolute majority.