Breaking:

Ina Müller: Talker announces the German jury’s point

Ireland: Wave of refugees from Great Britain alienates its neighbor

There is a risk of a fine: That’s why you shouldn’t use your garage as a workshop

Hamas and Israel: With pressure from Western and Arab foreign ministers for peace? – Politics

Elections: Governing party in Croatia ahead in parliamentary elections

0

Choose
Governing party in Croatia ahead in parliamentary elections

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic casts his vote at a polling station in Zagreb. photo

© Darko Bandic/AP

According to current projections, the bourgeois HDZ party is ahead in the parliamentary elections in Croatia. Voter turnout in this election is close to a record.

At the According to projections based on preliminary partial results, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s bourgeois HDZ party became the strongest force in the parliamentary election in Croatia, but fell short of the absolute majority needed to form a government.

As the central election commission in Zagreb announced after counting 31.7 percent of the ballot papers, HDZ and its four allies received 37.3 percent of the votes, i.e. 65 of a total of 151 parliamentary seats. The left-liberal opposition alliance Rijeke Pravde (Rivers of Justice), which is close to President Zoran Milanovic, came in second place with 41 mandates and 26.1 percent of the vote. The right-wing nationalist party Domovinski Pokret (Homeland Movement) took third place with 10 seats, which correspond to 6.4 percent of the vote.

At the same time, voter turnout was close to a record: just two and a half hours before the polls closed, it was 50.6 percent, higher than the overall turnout in the previous 2020 elections, which was 46.9 percent.