{"id":20171,"date":"2025-06-03T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/?p=20171"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:55:56","slug":"local-elections-in-croatia-show-that-every-single-vote-truly-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/press\/news\/local-elections-in-croatia-show-that-every-single-vote-truly-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Elections in Croatia Show That Every Single Vote Truly Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"198\">In the local elections in Croatia, held last weekend, it was shown in two municipalities that every single vote truly matters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"727\">In the municipality of Petrovsko in the Zagorje region, a new mayor was elected: independent candidate Valentina Prese\u010dki, who defeated her opponent \u017deljko Vu\u010dilovski, ending HDZ\u2019s 16-year rule. The margin of victory? Just one vote. After several recounts, Prese\u010dki secured 559 votes, while Vu\u010dilovski received 558.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"931\">A similar outcome occurred in the municipality of Novi Golubovec. There, SDP candidate Ivan Delija narrowly defeated HDZ\u2019s Boris Tu\u0161ek\u2014again, by a single vote. Delija won 297 votes, while Tu\u0161ek got 296.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the local elections in Croatia, held last weekend, it was shown in two municipalities that every single vote truly matters. In the municipality of Petrovsko in the Zagorje region, a new mayor was elected: independent candidate Valentina Prese\u010dki, who defeated her opponent \u017deljko Vu\u010dilovski, ending HDZ\u2019s 16-year rule. The margin of victory? Just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[303,304,302],"class_list":["post-20171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-croatia","tag-elections","tag-local-elections-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20174,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions\/20174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podlupom.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}