Kolinda Garbar-Kitarovic becomes the 1st Croatian female president

History was made in Croatia, as the very first female president emerges. Croatian conservative opposition candidate, Kolinda Garbar-Kitarovic won the Sunday’s presidential runoff election by slight margin.

She becomes the country’s first female president. Garba-Kitarovic won 50.4 percent of the vote casted against the incumbent Ivo Josipivic’s 49.6.

Grabar-Kitarovic is a former foreign minister and was Croa­tia’s ambassador to the United States.

She has promised to work to boost the Croatian econ­omy, one of the slowest econo­mies in the European Union.