🇭🇷 Croatian General Election, April 17th 2024: HDZ-DP coalition to be formed

[Estrella]

The official results page still has nothing, but the public TV shows nearly half of the votes counted. So far it would work out as HDZ 64, SDP 42, DP 13, Most 9, Možemo 7, IDS 4, NPS 2, Fokus 2, plus minority/diaspora. Turnout is 59.6%.

[Estrella]

wow, the SD split really flopped, huh? Unfortunate, because Milanović is a Putin bootlicker.

you have evidence of this claim?

Just a small example:

Croatia rejects joining in EU’s Ukraine training mission

The vote in parliament was held after Croatia’s president previously had refused to sign off on the proposal, saying it was not in accordance with the Constitution. President Zoran Milanovic has been an outspoken critic of Western policies in Ukraine. He has advocated that Croatia offer only humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion.

The government needed a two-thirds majority in parliament to get such a decision approved. The proposal did not pass because 97 out of parliament’s 151 members backed it — four fewer than needed. Ten lawmakers were against while the rest abstained or weren’t present during the vote.

Milanović was quite pro-Russian during his 2011–2016 term as PM, and after leaving office set up a consultancy firm with some rather suspicious connections to Moscow. As president, he's somehow managed to out-Orbán Orbán.

Highlights of Milanović's foreign policies include lashing out at the PM for visiting Ukraine, accusing the UK of goading Ukraine against Russia, saying that Russia deserves security guarantees from Ukraine, banning NATO aircraft from Croatian airspace, saying that the invasion is a US-Russian proxy war, calling the 2014 Ukrainian revolution a coup d'état, denying the Bucha massacre, saying that "it's the Ukrainians or those who incited them who are to blame for deaths of Ukrainians" and this quote which, yes, is real and was said this September: "we're currently watching how Russia is mincing Ukraine with very small number of soldiers".