Until recently, the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, also the president Serbian Progressive Party, was appointed as an advisor to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, for regional issues. He was appointed to this position on May 27, and the decision was published in the Official Gazette.
Before this, Vučević held the office of Prime Minister. However, he submitted his resignation on January 28 because, as he stated, he "believes that he is objectively responsible for the attack on students" that took place that night in front of the SNS premises in that city, from which "guys" came out with bats and beat the students, and broke the jaw of one female student.
"I think that this policy to which I belong, the party I lead, which has won together with the President of the Republic in all the elections since 2012 several times, must show the highest degree of responsibility, it must bring and demonstrate new rules of law in Serbian politics, it must show that it is the most responsible, and that is why after this event in Novi Sad, my irrevocable decision is to resign from the position of Prime Minister," Vučević said at the time.
A man without attributes
However, he continued to serve as the president of the party whose members beat the students with batons.
Meanwhile, the President of the Republic calls these thugs "heroes".
A man without attributes
"Even good connoisseurs of the situation in Novi Sad were surprised when, after the elections in 2012, Miloš Vučević was catapulted as the first man of the city, until then an almost completely anonymous political activist and lawyer, the son of the old radical leaf Zoran Vučević, who during the period of the mayorship of Maja Gojković held the position of the president of the city parliament. They say that to this day, even after almost a decade of managing the capital city of Vojvodina, Miloš has not mentally managed to step out of the shadow of his father, who knew very well that, after the establishment of the Serbian Progressive Party, the party uniform should be changed", "Vreme" previously wrote.
Very serious accusations against Vučević were made in an anonymous criminal complaint submitted in 2020 to the Special Anti-Corruption Department of the High Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, in which it is claimed that the mayor of Novi Sad helped his close associate, advisor Slobodan Milić, known as Bocara, to collect millions of euros.
In the application, it was stated that the planning documents were changed in this case as well, with the aim of increasing the value of the land previously purchased by Milić - many times over. The city then bought part of that land from Milić at a significantly higher price, and on the second, "repurposed" property, Vučević's advisor is building buildings worth as much as 40 million euros.
Media that are not under the control of the progressive government reported in detail about Miloš Vučević's connections with people with very dubious biographies, such as Marko Bosanc, known as Boska, Zvonko Veselinović or Slobodan Milutinović Sniper. They played an important role in progressive "election engineering" and in return received very lucrative jobs.
Vučić's most trusted man
Vucevic was mayor of Novi Sad for three consecutive terms, starting in 2012.
He was born in 1974 in Novi Sad, where he completed elementary school and high school, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Novi Sad in 1999. After his studies, he worked as a lawyer in the family law office until 2012, when he was elected mayor.
Vučević joined the SNS in 2008, and in 2011 he became the chairman of the City Committee of the party in Novi Sad. He was elected vice-president of the SNS in 2016, and in 2023 he became the formal president of the party.
During his political career, Vucevic was known for his involvement in local self-government and the development of Novi Sad.
In October 2022, Vucevic was appointed Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, and in May 2024, he became Prime Minister of Serbia.
