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Josipovic wins Croatian presidential election



10 January 2010 @ 11:10 pm BST

ZAGREB - Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic scored a resounding victory in Croatia's presidential election on Sunday, pledging to help the government's efforts to complete European Union membership talks this year.


Ivo Josipovic
Ivo Josipovic, presidential candidate of Croatia's Social Democrats, who leads in the exit polls in the second round of presidential elections, greets his supporters at his campaign headquarters in Zagreb January 10, 2010.
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Josipovic, a law expert who promised to back Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's reform and anti-corruption campaigns -- a key requirement from the EU -- won 60.3 percent of votes, the state electoral commission said.

Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic, backed by the church and more conservative voters, mustered 39.7 percent of votes as an independent candidate.

(Reporting by Zoran Radosavljevic, Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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