Puhovski

"It is forgotten that when people come with weapons, it is not the content they bring that matters, but the form of the weapons. When they shoot at me, I don't care if they shoot at me in the name of democracy or feudalism - they shoot at me and are my enemies", he told Croatian media.

Whoever wins, experts agree he or she faces a tough task running a city dominated for so long by Bandic, whose energetic, six-term rule over Zagreb was marred by a string of corruption scandals.