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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Support for Ukraine at stake as Croatia votes in parliamentary election

Andrej Plenković waves as he walks through a large crowd of people waving flags and blue flowers
The incumbent prime minister, Andrej Plenković, arriving for a rally in Zagreb on Sunday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Croatian voters are going to the polls in a high-stakes parliamentary election that could significantly change the country’s pro-western stance on issues including European support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia.

Polls suggest the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of the prime minister, Andrej Plenković, could lose its majority to a Social Democrat-led coalition headed by the populist president, Zoran Milanović, who is not officially a candidate.

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