In the second round of the presidential elections, 34.77 percent of voters, or 1,154,438, had voted by Sunday afternoon, the State Election Commission (SEC) announced at 5 p.m.
The turnout is slightly lower than two weeks ago, when 1,195 voted by the same time, by 4:30 p.m. 377 voters or 36.09 percent.
This Sunday, 41,000 fewer voters turned out, according to data from 94 percent of processed polling stations.
With the opening of polling stations at seven o’clock on Sunday in Croatia, the second round of presidential elections began.
More than 6,700 polling stations in the country and abroad, where citizens will choose between two presidential candidates, will remain open until 19:00, when the election silence lasts.
The candidates for the new five-year presidential mandate who had a sufficient number of votes for the second round are the current president Zoran Milanović, candidate of SDP and partner, and Dragan Primorac, candidate of HDZ and partner.
Milanović won 49.09 percent or 797,936 votes, and Primorac 19.35 percent or 314,663 votes according to the results of the first round of presidential elections published on the website of the SEC.
In the presidential elections in Croatia, 3.7 million citizens have the right to vote.
A total of 1,625,458 voters voted in the first round, which is 46.03 percent of the total number of registered voters.
