(29 Dec 2024)
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Zagreb, Croatia – 29 December 2024
1. Polling station opens, doors being opened
2. People queuing inside polling station
3. Interior of polling station, man votes
4. Candidate Dragan Primorac enters polling station, greets polling officials and presents his ID card
5. Primorac voting, poses for cameras and leaves
6. Primorac approaches microphones
7. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Dragan Primorac, Croatian Democratic Union candidate for president:
"This is an opportunity for me to call upon everyone to come out and vote. Because today is an extremely important day. Croatia is going forward into the future, Croatia needs unity, Croatia needs its global positioning, and above all Croatia needs peaceful life.""
8. Primorac leaving
STORYLINE:
The candidate of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, Dragan Primorac, cast his vote in Zagreb on Sunday after polls opened in the nation’s presidential election.
The left-leaning President Zoran Milanović, an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, is running for reelection in the Adriatic Sea state, but is unlikely to get an outright majority in the first round of voting on Sunday.
Milanović, who is often compared to Donald Trump for his combative style of communication with political opponents, faces seven other contenders, including Primorac.
The two are expected to face off in the second round on Jan. 12 if no contender gets more than 50% of the vote, according to pre-election polls.
The most popular politician in Croatia, 58-year-old Milanović had served as prime minister in the past.
Populist in style, Milanovic has been a fierce critic of current Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and continuous sparring between the two has lately marked Croatia’s political scene.
Plenković has sought to portray the vote as one about Croatia’s future in the EU and NATO.
He has labeled Milanović as “pro-Russian” and a threat to Croatia’s international standing.
Trailing a distant third in the pre-election polls is Marija Selak Raspudić, a conservative independent candidate.
She has focused her election campaign on the economic troubles of ordinary citizens, corruption and issues such as population decline in the country of some 3.8 million.
Sunday’s presidential election is Croatia’s third vote this year, following a snap parliamentary election in April and the European Parliament balloting in June.
AP video shot by Almir Alic
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