Kosor called on her main rival in two weeks' run-off, the incumbent President Stjepan Mesic, to submit a report on all what he had done in his first term in office regarding the promotion of state and national interests.
"I expect a tight fight and I call on Mesic to confront with me with arguments and programmes," the HDZ candidate said.
She called on voters to cast their ballots for her in the forthcoming run-off and thanked them as well as the HDZ President Ivo Sanader, her election team and party members, for their confidence in her.
"I am going to the second round calmly and full of self-confidence and I believe that turnout will be higher," Kosor said.
She added that by his rhetoric claiming that the electorate would choose between Croatia's progress towards the 21st century or return to the past at the next round Mesic was trying to intimidate voters. He did the same before the last parliamentary elections when he said that the HDZ would isolate Croatia, Kosor said, adding that this had not happened and Croatia would soon start entry talks with the European Union.