Juraj Šutej

Juraj Šutej was a lawyer and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party. He was elected member of the Yugoslav Parliament from Duvno and Split districts in the 1927, 1935, and 1938 elections. He served as the Yugoslav Finance Minister in the cabinets of Dragiša Cvetković and Dušan Simović in 1939–1941, as well as in the Yugoslav government-in-exile under Ivan Šubašić. In the Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia dominated by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and led by Josip Broz Tito, Šutej was a minister without portfoilio. He resigned from the post in October 1945 along with Šubašić in protest against KPJ's breaches of the Tito–Šubašić Agreements which were the basis of the government. The HSS boycotted the 1945 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, but Šutej unsuccessfully tried to revive its political work in 1946 before being overruled by the HSS leadership – prompting him to retire from politics.