Croatia’s Former PM Milanovic Wins Presidential Vote

Zoran Milanovic waves next to his wife after first results were announced during the run-off of Croatia's presidential election in Zagreb, Croatia on Jan. 5, 2020. Marko Djurica/Reuters

ZAGREB—Former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, candidate of the top opposition party the Social Democrats, will be Croatia’s next president, the results of the presidential election showed on Sunday.

In the second and final round of the election, Milanovic won 52.7 percent of votes. At the same time, the incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, candidate of the ruling center-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), garnered 47.3 percent of the votes.