ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia will maintain a presidential election on Dec. 29, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković introduced on Tuesday.
Authorities are but to formally set the vote. If no candidate wins an outright majority on Dec. 29, a runoff vote might be held two weeks later.
Incumbent populist President Zoran Milanović has mentioned he would run for reelection. Milanović is backed by opposition Social Democratic Occasion, whereas his most important challenger is predicted to be Dragan Primorac, a candidate of the governing conservatives.
Milanović and Plenković are bitter political rivals. Milanović has opposed the Croatian authorities’s help for Ukraine, together with participation of Croatian troops in a NATO-led coaching mission for Ukrainian troopers.
The election additionally might be held because the conservative authorities was shaken this week by the arrest of the Heath Minister Vili Beroš on suspicion of corruption in procurement offers for Croatian hospitals.
A number of different candidates from each the left and proper are additionally anticipated to affix the presidential race.
Milanović, 58, had served as prime minister up to now, earlier than profitable the presidential election 5 years in the past by beating then incumbent Kolinda Grabar Kitarović.
