Two and a half months before Croatia joins the EU, just 21 percent of voters bothered to cast ballots in Sunday's (14 April) election of 12 new MEPs.
The turnout is less than half compared to the country's referendum on EU accession in January last year, which saw 43.5 percent of people vote.
It is also one of the lowest ever in EU polls, a record held by Slovakia in 2004, when just 17 percent of people voted.
Croatia's opposition centre-right HDZ party won six seats, narro...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.