Miloš Vučević

Miloš Vučević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Вучевић, pronounced [mǐloʃ ʋûːtʃeʋitɕ]; born 10 December 1974) is a Serbian politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Serbia from 2024 to 2025. He has been the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2023, and was previously the Mayor of Novi Sad from 2012 to 2022 and the Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 2022 to 2024.

Born in Novi Sad, Vučević graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Novi Sad in 1999, after which he worked as a lawyer. He joined SNS in 2008 and was elected the president of the party's Novi Sad branch in 2011. He led SNS in the 2012 local elections, winning 16% of the popular vote in Novi Sad. Vučević became mayor of Novi Sad in September 2012 after ousting Igor Pavličić of the Democratic Party from power. He led coalitions that included SNS and the Socialist Party of Serbia, and later the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and the Serbian Patriotic Alliance. As mayor, he redesigned the city's urbanism plan, worked on improving the city's infrastructure, and oversaw the beginning of the Novi Sad on Water project and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was re-elected as mayor in 2016 and 2020, becoming the longest-serving mayor of Novi Sad in 2021. During his tenure, Novi Sad was also the European Youth Capital and the European Capital of Culture.