Speaking to reporters before his final election rally in Zagreb, Cesic said he expected to win the elections in the first round, and told voters not to cast their ballots for him "if they think that Tudjman was a criminal and that Croatia was built on crimes".
Cesic said that he, rather than Jadranka Kosor, was the true candidate of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
"If you cast your vote for Kosor, it will be as if you voted for (Serb leaders) Stanimirovic and Pupovac, because they are in a coalition," he said and added: "They did not create the HDZ and they do not have HDZ membership cards, but those that were issued in Brussels. This is not the HDZ, but a European, Brussels-based, Masonic party."