Juraj Šutej ( Podorašac, 4 December 1889 –

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, 15 April 1976) was a lawyer and

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n and

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n politician. He was a member of the

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(''Hrvatska seljačka stranka'', HSS). He was elected member of the

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from

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and

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districts in the

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, and 1938 elections. He served as the Yugoslav Finance Minister in the cabinets of

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and

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in 1939–1941, as well as in the

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under

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. In the Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia dominated by the

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(''Komunistička partija Jugoslavije'', KPJ) and led by

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, Šutej was a minister without portfoilio. He resigned from the post in October 1945 along with Šubašić (then the foreign minister) in protest against KPJ's breaches of the

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which were the basis of the government. The HSS boycotted the

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, but Šutej unsuccessfully tried to revive its political work in 1946 before being overruled by the HSS leadership – prompting him to retire from politics.

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