Croatians vote as Milanovic and Primorac face off in presidential run-off

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Pre-election polling suggest the left-leaning incumbent president Zoran Milanovic, who is an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine, will win.

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00:00Voting is underway this Sunday in Croatia's presidential election runoff.

00:06Left-leaning incumbent president Zoran Milankovic is up against centre-right candidate Dragan

00:12Primerak.

00:13Milankovic, who gathered nearly half of the votes in the first round, is expected to win,

00:19according to the latest polls.

00:21He is against military western support for Ukraine and is critical of the EU and NATO.

00:27Primerak, on the other hand, has repeatedly stated that Croatia's place is in the West.

00:32He is backed by the prime minister and Croatia's government, but his presidency bid has been

00:37marred by a high-level corruption case.

00:41Croatia has around 3.5 million eligible voters.

00:45Their turnout in the first round was 46 percent, the lowest of any presidential election in

00:5015 years.

00:52The first results are expected in the early evening of Sunday.

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