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Presidential run-off starts in Croatia

Xinhua, January 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Croaztian voters will elect a president from between incumbent president Ivo Josipovic and Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, a candidate from the largest opposition party Croatian Democratic Union, in a run-off race starting on Sunday.

In the neck-and-neck first round on Dec. 28, 2014, Josipovic won 38.46 percent of the vote while Kitarovic got 37.22 percent.

Latest polls showed that whereas Josipovic was supported by 46.5 percent of the voters, Kitarovic was estimated to win 34.9 percent of the vote.

Some 3.8 million voters will vote in 6352 polling stations, which opened at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) and will close at 7 p.m. (1800 GMT). The State Election Commission will release the preliminary results at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT).

Josipovic, 57, a former law professor and composer, was supported by 19 parties. Former Croatian Foreign Minister Kitarovic, 46, was supported by about eight parties.

The Croatian president is elected every five years and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. Josipovic, the third president of the country, took office in 2010. Endi