Croatia President Milanovic wins another term after defeating ruling party candidate in runoff

, Croatia’s opposition-backed President Zoran Milanovic, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won re-election for another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a runoff vote, official results showed. Mr. Milanovic also won comfortably in the first round of voting on December 29, leaving Primorac, a forensic scientist who had unsuccessfully run for president previously, and six other candidates far behind. The EU position that “if you don’t think the same as I do, then you’re the enemy” amounts to “mental violence”, Mr. Milanovic said. “I will work on changing it, as much as I can as the president of a small nation.” Mr. Milanovic served as prime minister in the past with a mixed record. He regularly accuses Mr. Plenkovic and his conservative HDZ of systemic corruption, while Mr. Plenkovic has labelled Mr. Milanovic “pro-Russian” and a threat to Croatia’s international standing.