Conservative candidate votes in Croatian presidential election

Croatians began casting ballots Sunday in a Presidential runoff where the incumbent Zoran Milanovic appears set to win a second term.

Milanovic entered the contest with surging momentum as he faces off against Dragan Primorac, supported by the HDZ party that governs Croatia.

The outspoken incumbent, backed by the left-wing opposition, won more than 49 percent of the vote during the contest's first round two weeks ago narrowly missing an outright victory.

Primorac garnered less than 20 percent of the ballots, making it unlikely that he will make up ground in the runoff. According to a survey published Thursday, Milanovic was projected to capture more than 62 percent of ballots cast compared to nearly 28 percent for Primorac.