Đuro Macut

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Đuro Macut (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Мацут; born 22 November 1963) is a Serbian endocrinologist, academic, and politician serving as the prime minister of Serbia since 2025. Although not a member of any political party, Macut co-founded the Movement for the People and the State in March 2025, which was initiated by Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia. He is the third independent politician to be nominated to the position of prime minister.
Born in Belgrade, Macut graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade in 1989, later obtaining a doctorate from the institution. Initially, he worked as an endocrinologist and researcher and later became a professor of internal medicine and endocrinology at the Faculty of Medicine in 2013. Politically inexperienced, Macut was nominated by Vučić as a candidate for prime minister in April 2025 and was voted in by the National Assembly of Serbia the same month.
As prime minister, he initiated meetings with the University of Belgrade rector Vladan Đokić on solving the education crisis started by the student-led anti-corruption protests, which ended up being successful. He hailed it as one his major successful tasks as prime…