The representative for the composition of the new government is Đuro Matsut, one of the initiators of the new movement of President Aleksandar Vučić. Apparently, just a "new charge d'affaires", critics say
New Serbian President Vlade will be a professor doctor Đuro Macut, announced the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
The election of Matsuto as a candidate was preceded by several weeks of speculation about potential candidates: it was claimed that there was a choice between two candidates, the possibility of a prime minister from the diaspora was mentioned, the names of some former ministers were also in circulation, but in the end the choice fell on a doctor, writes Deutsche Welle.
Đuro Macut, endocrinologist, graduated, master's and doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, where he is a full professor. He is the deputy director of the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases of the University Clinical Center.
According to published information, he is a world-renowned expert on polycystic ovary syndrome. He is a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Endocrinology and a visiting professor at the universities of Athens and Skopje.
Continuity of the crisis
There were also speculations that the regime could decide on early elections if there is no new government. But the atmosphere in the country, the great resistance of the citizens, as well as the loud warnings of the opposition that there would be no elections under the same conditions, led to the name of the new president.
The future prime minister, whose government must be elected by April 18, faces difficult tasks. His choice is all the more strange because he is a doctor who has virtually no political experience.
Đuro Macut is one of the members of the initiative committee of Vučić's "Movement for the People and the State", and it is recorded that he was also one of the visitors to Pionir Park where he addressed "students who want to learn".
That is why one of the initiators of ProGlas, writer and publisher Gojko Božović, believes that the election of Matsuto is just a continuation of the "government of continuity".
"Continuity with this government is the continuity of the crisis. You cannot find a solution with the same solutions. The government simply decided to deepen the crisis instead of solving it and meeting the demands of the rebellious society," Božović assessed for DW.
The crisis is solved by a change in policy
In a personal sense, this is a man who has been part of the regime's propaganda actions in recent months, continues our interlocutor and enumerates: Macut spoke at the regime's counter rally in Jagodina and is one of the initiators of the Vučić movement.
"This shows that this is a person from the orbit of the Serbian Progressive Party. The crisis in Serbia cannot be solved by changing the candidate or one prime minister to another, it can only be solved by changing the policy," says Božović.
"If they insist on the same personnel base, on the same political solutions, and persistent refusal of dialogue, it can only mean an even greater division in society."
The election of a doctor without any political experience in complex regional and international circumstances probably shows that the most important thing was to form some sort of government and avoid elections.
The scenario is irresistibly reminiscent of the case of the former mayor of Belgrade, Zoran Radojičić, also a doctor, who practically disappeared from public life after becoming the head of the capital.
According to Božović, the election of Macut shows that "the leader of the regime does not need a true prime minister, but rather a charge d'affaires".
An announcement of a more radical showdown?
In his introductory speech, Vučić spoke about the complicated situation in the region, but also about the "colored revolution", regretting that he did not react earlier and more sharply.
For Božović, that sounds like "announcement of radicalization".
"Since the protests have been going on, we have had semblances of concessions, while on the other hand we have arrests, physical attacks, running into cars, the use of unidentified sonic weapons, which is an indicator of radicalization that is much closer to the current regime than any other form of political activity."
Despite this, Aleksandar Vučić again called for dialogue in his address, but as Gojko Božović notes, "the message and the way it was communicated, the announcement of the counter rally on April 12, actually shows that the government avoids facing reality, and therefore avoids dialogue."
Source: Deutsche Welle
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