Croatia’s Premier Vows to Form Majority After Vote Setback
- Plenkovic, arch-rival Milanovic will struggle to form majority
- EU unity on Ukraine at stake should Milanovic form government
Andrej Plenkovic at HDZ headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic forged ahead with forming a new government after suffering a setback in the nation’s parliamentary election, as the opposition tied to President Zoran Milanovic mounted an attempt to unseat the ruling party.
Neither leader has an easy path to cobbling together a majority after Wednesday’s contest, which was upended by Milanovic’s unexpected bid to seek the premiership last month. Plenkovic early Thursday said his center-right Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, had won “convincingly,” while the Social Democrats, which support Milanovic, vowed to oust the premier.