Zagreb commuters react to election results

(23 Dec 2019) Early morning commuters in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, gave their reactions on Monday to Sunday's election results, which showed that no candidate won an outright majority in the first round of voting.
Croatia's conservative president Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic will now face liberal former prime minister Zoran Milanovic in a runoff election early next month.
The vote was held just days before Croatia takes over the European Union’s presidency for the first time.
The governing conservatives are hoping to to keep their grip on power ahead of assuming the EU chairmanship.
Milanovic led the field with nearly 30% of the votes in preliminary returns.
Grabar Kitarovic had almost 27%, the state election authorities said after counting almost all ballots.
Right-wing singer Miroslav Skoro was in third place with around 24%.
Some 3.8 million voters in the EU's newest member country chose from among 11 candidates in Sunday's election, but only the top three finishers had been considered serious contenders.
Milanovic and Grabar Kitarovic now will face each other in a second round of voting January 5.

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