Croatia’s ruling centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the most seats in Wednesday’s elections but fell short of a majority, according to preliminary results from the State Electoral Commission.
The HDZ won 60 seats – six fewer than in 2020 – in the 151-seat parliament based on results from 97.38% of the voting sections, according to data from the Electoral Commission cited by Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT).
The incumbent Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic, was greeted with thunderous applause at the party’s campaign headquarters in Zagreb.
“The important thing is that the HDZ has for the third consecutive time convincingly won a…
