Milanovic won 49.1 percent of the first round vote and Primorac, backed by the ruling conservative HDZ party, took 19.35 percent, according to results released by the state electoral commission from nearly all of the polling stations.
But he used the office to attack political opponents and EU officials, often with offensive and populist rhetoric.
Milanovic, who condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, has nonetheless criticised the West’s military aid to Kyiv.
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