Croatia elects first female President

Croatian conservative op­position candidate Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic won Sunday’s presidential runoff election by a razor-thin margin and will be­come the country’s first female president.


With nearly all votes counted, Croatia’s election commission said Grabar-Kitarovic won 50.4 percent of the vote, while in­cumbent Ivo Josipivic won 49.6.

Grabar-Kitarovic is a former foreign minister and was Croa­tia’s ambassador to the United States. She has promised to work to boost the Croatian econ­omy, one of the slowest econo­mies in the European Union