Croatia's centre-left President Ivo Josipovic and his conservative rival Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic will face off in a run-off vote on January 11 after neither candidate won an outright majority in the first round, exit polls showed Sunday.
In a neck-and-neck race, Josipovic garnered 38.9 percent of the vote compared to Grabar-Kitarovic's 38.1 percent, according to exit polls released by the national HRT and Nova television stations immediately after polling stations closed.