Croatia is gearing up for its parliamentary election on Wednesday, with the campaign characterized by intense exchanges between the country's top officials, leading to a political crisis in the Balkan nation that is a member of both the European Union and NATO.
The election will see the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), led by incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, facing off against an alliance of centrist and left-wing parties informally led by populist President Zoran Milanovic and his Social Democratic Party (SDP).
