Leftist candidate leading in Croatia presidential vote: exit poll

• A leftist former prime minister was leading in the first round of Croatia's president election on Sunday.
• Zoran Milanovic had 29.58 percent of the vote followed by 26.38.

Zoran Milanovic had 29.58 percent of the vote followed by 26.38 for incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, and 24.1 percent for Miroslav Skoro, a right-wing folk singer running as an independent, an exit poll on national TV showed.