New mandate for HDZ; Election results in Croatia at 99.3% of processed votes

The Homeland Movement won 14 mandates, Most 11, Mozemo 10, IDS 2, NPS 2 and Focus one mandate.

Andrej Plenković, president of the HDZ and former prime minister, said last night after the announcement of the first results that it was important that the party won convincingly for the third time in a row in the elections held, as he said, thanks to Zoran Milanović, on a "bizarre day".

Plenković announced at the party's headquarters that HDZ is already starting to form a third government today. Congratulating other political parties, Plenković says that HDZ will continue its policy that "protected citizens from many crises and saved the Croatian economy".

SDP leader Pedja Grbin said on Wednesday evening that the unofficial results of the parliamentary elections show that two-thirds of the citizens supported this party and that they will therefore show that Croatia can and will be better.

"We have days, weeks and months of talks ahead of us, but they will end with a change that will make Croatia better, without corruption, that takes care of its people," said Grbin.

He said that today they are starting talks with those who "until yesterday said that they would not work with the HDZ, that they would not work with a corrupt Croatia".

"And it's up to us to check that those words were true," Grbin said.

Parliamentary elections for the 11th convocation of the Parliament were held in Croatia. 3.7 million voters had the right to vote, and 62 percent of citizens voted.

Based on 98 percent of the votes counted, HDZ received 60 mandates.

The "Rijeke Pravde" coalition, led by the SDP, won 42 mandates. It is certain that eight parties and coalitions will enter the parliament. Serbs are allocated three parliamentary seats in the Parliament, which go to Milorad Pupovac's SDSS.

In the elections for members of the 11th convocation of Parliament, 3.7 million voters had the right to vote, and 62 percent of citizens voted. They chose from among 2,302 candidates on 165 lists, who competed for 151 mandates in the assembly.

All three parliamentary mandates intended for Serbs were won by the Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS) of Milorad Pupovac.