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.