She said the preliminary results showed that HDZ was leading in 50 percent of cities, 54 percent of municipalities and 13 counties.
"This is the result we expected and we are satisfied," Kosor said at the HDZ headquarters in Zagreb.
Asked by reporters why the HDZ President Ivo Sanader had not come to the party headquarters this evening, senior HDZ officials said that Sanader failed to attend because of his busy schedule as Prime Minister.
"The Prime Minister must work, and he will of course come when all the results are known and proclaim an election victory," HDZ official Andrija Hebrang said.
Sanader is expected to hold a news conference at 1300 hours Monday.