Serbia's Vucic nominates medical professor as prime minister

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After months of historic protests, Serbia’s embattled president, Aleksandar Vučić, is now up against something particularly formidable: the clock. The context: Vučić, a right-wing populist friendly with Serbia’s traditional ally Moscow, has held power since 2012. Last year, the deadly collapse of a canopy at a renovated train station touched off anti-corruption protests that swelled into the country’s largest demonstrations in a generation. Prot…

Serbia's Vucic nominates medical professor as prime minister

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has nominated a politically inexperienced medical professor, Djuro Macut, to become prime minister after the previous occupant resigned during anti-government protests.

After months of protests against the Serbian government, President Vucic has appointed a new Prime Minister. Djuro Macut has no political experience - but comes from an environment that makes Vucic special. By O. Soos[more]]>

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