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The Croatian constitutional court on Monday revoked the ruling convicting Glavas, who was found guilty in two cases of war crimes against Serb civilians in the city of Osijek in 1991-92, and ordered new proceedings against him.

BELGRADE - President of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Sanda Raskovic Ivic said on Monday that in it scontacts with Croatia's new president, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Serbia should insist on protecting the rights of the Croatian Serbs and solutions to the the problem of Serb refugees and missing persons from the 1991-1995 conlfict.

Grabar Kitarovic, the victorious candidate of the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, went to share her unexpected triumph in the early hours of Monday morning with the protesting disabled veterans from the 1990s conflict at the tent they have set up in front of the war veterans' ministry.

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has won in the second round of elections that were held in Croatia on Sunday, becoming the country's first female president.

Grabar-Kitarovic, who is from the oppositional Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), won against incumbent Ivo Josipovic with the narrowest of margins, the BBC reports.

ZAGREB - We will support Serbia on its EU path, but it needs to fulfil all the conditions Croatia fulfilled in the process, Croatian President and presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic said on Sunday.

After a close race in the first round of Croatian presidential elections, voters today will decide whether their head of state for the next five years will be the centre-left incumbent, Ivo Josipovic, or the candidate of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic. First results are expected some time this evening.

Incumbent president Ivo Josipovic, who is supported by centre-left government parties, and his challenger Kolida Grabar Kitarovic, the candidate of the centre-right opposition Croatian Democratic Union, both had words of warning for EU hopeful Serbia during the debate on Nova TV on Thursday evening.

The success of a leftist outsider in the first round of Croatia's presidential elections is making waves on the political scene, a new opinion poll shows.

The poll conducted by the agency Promocija Plus shows that a new activist movement has gone from nowhere to becoming the fourth most popular party in the country.

Competition between the incumbent president Ivo Josipovic and his challenger Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic heated up on Sunday in the televised debate as the two candidates vied for support ahead of the second-round run-off vote.

Josipovic, the centre-left candidate supported by the government, and Grabar Kitarovic, supported by the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, face a battle for the votes that went to the other candidates in the first round.

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