{"id":14117,"date":"2025-01-12T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=14117"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:22:47","slug":"croats-vote-for-president-with-incumbent-milanovic-ahead-in-opinion-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/europe\/croats-vote-for-president-with-incumbent-milanovic-ahead-in-opinion-polls\/2025\/01\/12\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Croats vote for president, with incumbent Milanovic ahead in opinion polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Croats were voting on Sunday in a presidential run-off election, with incumbent Zoran Milanovic ahead in opinion surveys of Dragan Primorac of the ruling Croatia&#8217;s Democratic Union for the chiefly ceremonial position.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Polling stations opened at 0600 GMT and will close at 1800 GMT, with exit polls expected minutes later. Preliminary results will be known around 1900 GMT and official results are expected in the following days.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\">\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__container__FEnoz ad-slot__fixed-height__6m70D\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to vote in the second round. In the first round two weeks ago, Milanovic led with 49.1% support to Primorac&#8217;s 19.35%.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">An opinion poll published on Friday by Nova TV Daily News showed Milanovic of the Social Democratic Party leading with 67.4% against Primorac, a former science minister, with less than 27%.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">The Croatian head of state cannot veto laws but has a say in foreign policy, defence and security matters.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croats were voting on Sunday in a presidential run-off election, with incumbent Zoran Milanovic ahead in opinion surveys of Dragan Primorac of the ruling Croatia&#8217;s Democratic Union for the chiefly ceremonial position. Polling stations opened at 0600 GMT and will close at 1800 GMT, with exit polls expected minutes later. Preliminary results will be known [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2399,8273],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-25.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14119,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions\/14119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}