Can doctors heal Serbian politics – BBC News in Serbian
The text was written in March 2022. years, was amended in April 2025.
Serbia needs a « Imperial incision » for the treatment of acute socio-political problems, and the current top of the state reached a doctor from Sleeves.
For the first time since World War II and Blagoja NeskovicThe Serbian government should lead a doctor – Đuro MacutEndocrinology expert.
Nešković was the President of the Government of Serbia since 1945. until 1948. years.
At the time of great anti-government protests and one of the largest political crises in Serbia, the ruling Serbian Advanced Party (SNS) and the president of State Aleksandar Vučić will try to extinguish the fire for a man’s mandate who is an expert in medicine, but there is no political experience.
« Đuro Macut is extremely calm, tolerant, tolerant, patient and probably the largest expert in the field of endocrinology from Vienna to Istanbul », did not spare the words of Praise Vučić for the mandate for the composition of the new government.
« When Europe and the European Commission have pediatricians at the head of government (alluding to Ursulu von der Laen), I believe that Serbia will achieve great successes, » Vučica said.
Macut is a political rookie, although he said in Vučić’s rally in Jagodina January this year, and supports his movement for the people and the state, which is emerging.
However, it is not unusual that doctors actively participate in Serbian politics, and even to be on important functions, such as Zoran Radojičić, the former Belgrade mayor.
« Since I have been following the political scene in Serbia, it has always been so – a number of doctors engaged in politics, » Zoran Radojicic said, recognized Pediatrician, for the BBC in Serbian March 2022. Years.
Radojicic was still in the position of Mayor of Belgrade, elected by the votes of SNS and coalition partners.
« Doctors are in everyday contact with an extremely large number of people, they are more visible in public and enjoy a great trust of citizens, » Radojicic said earlier for BBC.
Radojicic was performing the position of Belgrade of Belgrade, but was often in the shadow of the then city manager Goran Vesić, which represented almost all the greatest projects and ideas.
The doctor was previously in Serbian governments and is often entrusted with health resort.
Significant internship has Hirug Zlatibor Lončar from SNS, and Minstarka was Danica Grujičić before him, which attended some ongoing Student protestsin Kragujevac or in front of the General Staff in the center of Belgrade.
In the current Technical Government of Serbia, another doctor – Slavica Đukić Dejanović, in the position of the Minister of Education.
In some previous governments, it was a health minister.
In earlier parliamentary and local elections, for example, there were many doctors on the parties lists.
Branimir Nestorovic, a recognized pediatrician and an allergologist, made great surprise In elections in 2023., because his list is Me – Voice from the people, entered the Assembly of Serbia, but also in local parliaments.
Doctors and health workers are at the top of the lists of professional professions, while in the bottom are convincingly – politicians, previously researched Ipsos agency has shown.
« Decisions of the parties are clear, they seek to make a partie in connection with the reputation, authority and quality of individuals, » said the BBC in Serbian Siniša Atlagić, a professor of political marketing at the Faculty of Political Science.
Tradition of Laza Paca
Zoran Radojičić in the list of ruling Serbian advanced parties (SNS) for parliamentary elections 2022. It took office 30. place – at the first day of Grujičić, which deals with neurosurgery, and in the sixth team of Marija Zdravković, Cardiology.
Vladimir Đukić, professor of the Medical Faculty, was 6 in these elections. In the list of Socialist Party of Serbia, and three doctors were headed for Belgrade elections.
Doctor Miljko Ristic was the first in the list of Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Dr. Mladen Kočica near the Vocabulary, and Dr. Borislav Antonijević on the Patriotic Block list.
« Doctors always had a huge reputation and the parties to find that as many reputable names are on their lists, » Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, Vice President of the Socialist Party of Serbia and Neuropsychiatrist before for the BBC in Serbian.
Although in politics they enter white coatings, other departments were often obtained.
Zoran Stanković, Pathologist and the former chief of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, was the Minister of Health and the Minister of Defense, while Surgeon Oliver Dulic was the Minister of Environment and the President of the Assembly of Serbia.
The Faculty of Medicine also graduated from Rasim Ljajic, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and a longtime minister.
The last doctor and Prime Minister of Serbia was 80 years ago Blagoje Nešković, a participant in the Spanish Civil War and the National Liberation Struggle, followed by a senior official and scientist at the time of Yugoslavia.
However, one of the greatest names is the famous Lazar Pacch, which was at the beginning of the 20th century, as a « doctor who caught Serbian finances ».
Can the doctors cure today and today’s policy?
Korona celebrated further
In the spring of 2020. year, by applause from the terrace and windows at 8 p.m. could be cheered.
Every night Bridel is hundreds of thousands of palms across the countryand everything in honor of doctors and other health workers on the front line of the front against the Covida-19 epidemic.
The first case of corona virus in Serbia was recorded 6. March, and the state later formed a crisis headquarters for the suppression of an epidemic.
Doctor’s names Predraga Kona, Gorana Stevanović, Branimir Nestorović and Darije Kisić Tepavčević soon became famous across the country.
A few months later, Kisic Tepic Tepic, otherwise epidemiologist, became an Minister of Labor Employment, Veterans’ and Social Affairs, and in November 2021. she accessed SNS.
Kisic Tepavčević at the earlier call of the BBC for talks about doctors in Serbian politics said « I drive, hearing about 20 minutes » and no longer answered the phone.
It was true, he rated Miljko Ristic, the Radical candidate for the Mayor, that the parties have « a doctor who is known » among members, but the reverse situation is more likely to seek parties.
« Their motive is that doctors find compensation through politics and prove the quality they did not prove in the profession, » Ristic said earlier for the BBC in Serbian.
However, Goran Belojevic, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, considers that doctors are politically engaged and because of the desire for power.
« Position in the political party allows you to arrive at key management sites in health care institutions, which some people can never come, » considered.
« It’s really a big bait in Serbia, » he adds.
However, most of the BiH’s interlocutors said that it was also about the people of reputation, who want to be socially active, which parties want to have in their ranks.
« Citizens, so doctors have the right to participate in political life, » says Radojicic, otherwise former director of the University Children’s Clinic in Belgrade, known as Tirsov.
« The policy should include an increasing number of people, intellectuals, young and educated, so that all together knowledge and experience would contribute to our society to become even better. »
Slavica Đukić Dejanović adds that doctors « have ambition to achieve not only in the profession, but also beyond, to provide better conditions for the profession. »
« I think most doctors simply engages in politics to give the health system creative ideas that it works in the best way. »
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In one of the previous convening convenes of the Serbian assembly, disbanded before elections 3. April 2022, among 250 deputies, there were nine doctors, while there were 18.
Most of them were at the beginning of the 1990s, after the renovation of multi-party in Serbia.
« The Assembly of Serbia then looked more like a medical chamber, » says Belojevic.
Most public attention before the election 2022. provoked the decision of the Progressives that their list was led by Danica Grujičić, which then said that the offer had accepted « due to everything done in Serbia ».
« I always advocated that people have people with biographies in politics, » Grujičic said in February, that year for Pink Television.
« I know who I am, I know what I did all these years and how much I have medicine. »
Grujicic entered the politics in 2004, as a member of the ruling Democratic Party, and the 2012 was candidate for the President. Years.
She won 0.78 percent of the votes and the race ended as the penultimate of 12 candidates.
Since October 2022, Grujicic was 2022. until April 2024. Health Minister in the Government of Ana Brnabić.
This professor of the Faculty of Medicine today says that there is no unique answer to the question of what the doctors are entering the government.
« All the reasons and motifs depend exclusively from the personality and cannot be generalized.
« Only when you see the results we can talk about motifs, » says Grujicic for the BBC in Serbian on the occasion of the decision that the mandateard for the composition of the new government will be Đuro Macut.
It says about her term:
« There was too little time so that the desired results could be seen, » Dr. For BBC adds.
Doctors in the policy of region and world
When it comes to the countries of the former Yugoslavia, doctors are mainly engaged in health.
Thus, for example, Vili Beroš, according to the Neurohirurg, was the Minister of Health of Croatia, but was arrested in November 2024. And An investigations are underway for suspicion of corruption.
Andrija Hebrang, former Croatian Defense Minister, is also a doctor, and a familiar name of the politician is also a Mate Granić.
From 1993. until 2000. year, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Croatian President – participated in 1995 in 1995. in the creation of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Jovan Raskovic, the founder of the Serbian Democratic Party in Croatia and one of the leaders of the Serbs there are also known from that period.
He was a psychiatrist – he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb.
Raskovic is a father Sande Raskovic Ivicformer President of the Democratic Party of Serbia.
One of the most famous examples of doctors in the police is Radovan Karadzic, the former president of Republika Srpska, sentenced to life prison Due to genocide and crimes committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Karadzic finished the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo, and specializes in neuropsychiatry.
While he was on the escape of the Hague tribunal, he also hided as a doctor, under the pseudonym Dobor Dabic.
And the famous names have in the world – Ursula von der LaenThe President of the European Commission, she also finished medicine.
Bashar Al Asadlong-term ruler of Syria, seduced last year, specializes in the field of ophthalmology, and Francois Duvali was also involved, former Vladar Haiti, also known for the nickname of the Pope while.
And the other famous are like cruel dictators.
The doctor was also the famous revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.
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