Incumbent Milanovic secures overwhelming victory in presidential run-off

Zoran Milanovic greets his supporters as the preliminary results grant him victory in a run-off vote for the Croatian presidential election in Zagreb (Darko Bandic/AP)

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.

He defeated a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a run-off vote, near-complete official results showed.