Đuro Macut he took over prime minister exactly three months ago. It was two and a half months after that Miloš Vucevic resigned in front of the cameras.
A name previously unknown to the general public, the first man of executive power in Serbia, at least on paper, was elected to office on proposal of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
This name became known to part of the public when meeting of President Vučić's movement in January in Jagodina addressed the crowd dressed in a white coat.
A doctor of endocrinology by profession, he became a member of the initiative committee for the establishment of the aforementioned Movement for the People and the State shortly after the meeting. On April 6, he visited "students who want to learn" in Pionirski Park, and then sat in the Prime Minister's chair.
Since then, Macut has not addressed the public many times, except for announcements.
"He is inconspicuous, which on the one hand is not a bad thing, because the former prime ministers got on our heads. Obviously, he was brought in and appointed prime minister only to solve the issue of student blockades, as a university professor. I don't see him doing anything other than meeting with the rector Đokić", said Dragoljub Petrović, editor-in-chief of the "Danas" newspaper, as a guest on N1.
Meetings with the rector
Five times from the end of April to the end of June, Macut met with the representatives university in Serbia, and on the occasion of the crisis in higher education institutions that began with the blockade of faculties in November 2025.
The last meeting was held June 24 when enrollment quotas for admission to faculties were agreed upon.
Address in writing
On July 15, Macut issued his last statement, in which he strongly condemned the "attack on the family home" of the former mayor of Novi Sad and prime minister, and the current president of the Serbian Progressive Party and advisor to the President of the Republic, Miloš Vučević.
"Attacks of this type - whether directed at individuals, their property or families - are inadmissible in a democratic society and represent a red line that must not be crossed," the Prime Minister pointed out.
Citizens of Novi Sad who on Tuesday (July 15) gathered at the protest in that city came to the building at the address where the former prime minister and SNS president Miloš Vučević was registered, where they chanted.
On the website of the Government of Serbia, five pages with 20 posts each list news about the prime minister's activities. Exactly 96 items are listed.
Among them are, among other things, statements of condolence, holiday greetings, news about meetings with ministers, representatives of the European Union, ambassadors, the secretary general of the International Bureau of Exhibitions on the occasion of the Expo, a message wishing the President of Serbia a speedy recovery when he met in the United States, criticism of certain media, news about a meeting with representatives of the company Ziđin, and about a recent visit to the State Data Center in Kragujevac, where he attended the marking of the start of work on the construction of the new Innovation District building.
Weak in the media too
Since taking office, Đuro Macut has been a guest in RTS's morning program only once. He gave his first official interview since taking office to the Russian news agency TASS, writes N1.
It was at the end of June, and the prime minister declared that Serbia would not join the sanctions against Russia. "As long as I am the prime minister, the Serbian government will not join the sanctions against Russia," Macut said in an interview with TASS.
The Prime Minister recently refused to answer a question from Creek reporters about where he got the money for a million euro villa, and later he did not even allow journalist N1 to ask him a question.
Confusion about social networks
A few days after he became the prime minister, profiles with his name appeared on social networks with the note that they are the official profiles of the prime minister. The Government of Serbia soon announced that the Prime Minister has no accounts on social networks, and that those that appeared are fake.
As he explained to "Vreme" then digital consultant Dragan Varagić, it is better for the prime minister not to use social networks, than to use them incorrectly.
"Everything depends on the angle of observation. If someone is in the position of prime minister and should formally represent the most important person in this society, he is certainly followed by all the media, so he has other channels of communication, so his messages will be conveyed to the audience in one way or another. There is no need to worry about it," explained Varagić at the time.
However, given the small number of appearances of the Prime Minister at public meetings and in the media, citizens remain deprived of information about, according to the Constitution, the most powerful man in the country.
Professor and head of the clinic
In the official biography on the website of the Government of Serbia, it is stated that he was elected to all teaching positions at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade, and that since 2019 he has been a full professor in the subject of Internal Medicine and teaches classes for students in Serbian and English.
Macut is also the head of the Endocrine System Tumors and Hereditary Cancer Syndromes Department of the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, where, according to the information available on the clinic's website, he is also the assistant manager of the clinic.
So far, it is not known whether the prime minister still performs these functions.
"Vreme" asked the Government of Serbia about it, but the answer did not reach the publication of this article.
