Croatian President Milanovic barred for running for PM while still in post


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  • Monday, 18 Mar 2024

FILE PHOTO: President of Croatia Zoran Milanovic speaks during a press conference of the informal meeting with leaders of the alliance's members in the Western Balkans: Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia in Skopje, North Macedonia November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski/File Photo

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Croatia's Constitutional Court on Monday barred President Zoran Milanovic from running for prime minister in elections next month while still in office and said he would have to resign first.

Milanovic, a populist whose presidential term expires in February 2025, was prime minister, a more powerful post, from 2011 to 2016.

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