Croatia's opposition-backed president, a critic of the European Union and NATO, has overwhelmingly won another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a runoff vote, near-complete official results showed.
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00:00Official results of the Croatian presidential runoff show that Zoran Milanović won the election with an overwhelming majority.
00:08With nearly 74% of the vote, he is far ahead of his opponent, Dragan Primorać, who received 26%.
00:16I would like to remind you that public opinion polls conducted in front of the second round of presidential elections
00:21showed that Milanović will win, but none of the polls managed to predict how much percentage of the votes Milanović will win.
00:29If we compare the results of the polls conducted in front of the second round,
00:34it turns out that Zoran Milanović won 16% more, while his opponent, Dragan Primorać, won 6% less.
00:42With this victory in the second round of presidential elections, Zoran Milanović became the third Croatian president in history
00:49who managed to win two presidential mandates, because only Franjo Tuđman and Stjepan Mesec managed to do that before him.
00:56From Zagreb, for Euronews, Dušan Ilić.