President Grabar-Kitarović will be running for re-election to a second (and final) five-year term in this election. Furthermore, Ivo Josipović, her predecessor as president, is also eligible to run for re-election to a second and final term because he lost the 2015 elections after serving only one term from 2010 until 2015. If Grabar-Kitarović were to be defeated, the winner would be sworn in as the fifth President of Croatia since the country's independence on 25 June 1991.