Croatia's ruling center-left coalition and a conservative opposition are in a dead heat in the Balkan country's first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013, according to an exit poll cited by state TV Sunday, AP reported. The poll by independent Ipsos Puls agency says both the conservatives, led by former intelligence chief Tomislav Karamarko, and Social Democrats, led by incumbent Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, won 56 seats each in Croatia's 151-seat parliament. If that result is confirmed by the state electoral commission, it would mean both blocs have failed to win an outright majority in Sunday's vote and the forming of the new government will depend on several small parties that enter parliament. Ipsos Puls said it questioned 29,313 voters and that the exit poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points. -- SPA 22:12 LOCAL TIME 19:12 GMT تغريد
