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HDZ leads in Croatian early parliamentary election: preliminary results

Xinhua, September 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) would win 62 seats in the 151-seat parliament while opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) 52 seats in the parliamentary election, preliminary results showed late Sunday.

The party MOST would gain 13 seats and the small party Zivi Zid (Living Wall) won eight seats, according to the preliminary results released on Sunday evening by the State Electoral Commission (DIP).

The results were based on counts from 15 percent of polling stations and the DIP will release further results around midnight.

HDZ was satisfied with the first results and believed it would won the election with more seats.

SDP expected final results would be different and one of its official expressed it was necessary to wait for more votes to be counted.

There are nearly 3.8 million eligible voters registered for the early election, the second time in 10 months, but the turnout by 4:30 p.m. was 37.5 percent, according to DIP.

Some 2,456 candidates ran for 151 seats in parliament -- 140 are elected in 10 constituencies in Croatia, eight are elected by members of ethnic minorities and three by Croats residing abroad.

An early election was called after a coalition government between HDZ and MOST stepped down in June following a no-confidence vote. Endit