Milojko SpajiÃÂ (; born 24 September 1987) is a Montenegrin politician serving as Prime Minister of Montenegro since October 2023. He also served as the minister of finance and social welfare in the government of Montenegro and the cabinet of Zdravko KrivokapiÃÂ from 2020 to 2022.
Spajiàis the president of the centrist Europe Now party. As of 2025, he is the fifth youngest serving state leader in the world, after Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso, Daniel Noboa of Ecuador and Kristrún Frostadóttir of Iceland.
SpajiÃÂ was born on 24 September 1987 in Pljevlja, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia. SpajiÃÂ is related to Bishop Metodije OstojiÃÂ. He graduated from Pljevlja Gymnasium top of his class, and continued his education at Saitama University and Osaka University in Japan, where he studied ecometrics in Japanese on a Japanese government scholarship. He also participated in an exchange program at Tsinghua University. He obtained his master's degree from HEC Paris' business school.
Following graduation, SpajiÃÂ worked as a credit analyst at American investment bank Goldman Sachs, in their New York, Paris, and Tokyo offices. He went on to become a partner of a venture capital firm in Singapore, Das Capital SG.
SpajiÃÂ started his political career as a non-partisan politician and during the parliamentary elections in 2020 was a member of Zdravko KrivokapiÃÂ's expert team. SpajiÃÂ stated that there were several reasons for his return to Montenegro, but that the main one was the adoption of the disputed Law on Freedom of Religion and that the law shows how many problems have accumulated in the Montenegrin system. He added that until the situation improves, he would not "move" from Montenegro and that no investor would "trust in a state where an institution such as the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), which had existed for eight centuries and is trusted by most Montenegrin citizens, is getting its property seized by the government". During the religious crisis, he participated in lobbying in the United States for interests of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbs of Montenegro.
Spajic was sworn in as the minister of finance and social welfare on 4 December 2020 and served under Prime Minister Zdravko KrivokapiÃÂ. During his term, SpajiÃÂ and economy minister Jakov MilatoviÃÂ presented and implemented the controversial "Europe now" economic reform program. Following a parliamentary crisis, Prime Minister KrivokapiÃÂ announced that he had submitted an initiative to the Parliament of Montenegro to remove Deputy Prime Minister Dritan AbazoviÃÂ and proposed that SpajiÃÂ replaces him as the deputy prime minister. SpajiÃÂ claimed that he donated his whole ministerial salary.
In 2022, SpajiÃÂ and MilatoviÃÂ founded the Europe Now (PES) political party, with SpajiÃÂ as president and MilatoviÃÂ as deputy president. PES participated in the 2022 local elections.
SpajiÃÂ tried to run for President of Montenegro in the 2023 presidential election but his candidacy was rejected by the State Electoral Commission (DIK) as it was discovered that he is a dual citizen of Serbia and Montenegro. Following this discovery he stated he became a citizen of Serbia in 2009 and that the process of renouncing his Serbian citizenship is still ongoing. He later stated that he accepted Serbian citizenship so that he could travel to Japan without a visa. Instead of him, MilatoviÃÂ ran as PES candidate and ended up defeating incumbent president Milo ÃÂukanoviÃÂ in the run-off with 58.88% of the popular vote.
Following the presidential election, Spajiàsaid that he is ready to take responsibility and be PES's ballot carrier for the 2023 parliamentary election. On 26 April, it was confirmed that Spajiàwould head PES's electoral list. During the election campaign, Prime Minister Dritan Abazoviàand interior minister Filip Adà ¾iàaccused Spajiàof having connections to South Korean cryptocurrency developer Do Kwon who was arrested in Montenegro in March 2023. According to AbazoviÃÂ, Do Kwon sent a letter from prison which was addressed to AbazoviÃÂ, Adà ¾iÃÂ, justice minister Marko Kovaàand main prosecutor Vladimir NovoviÃÂ, informing them of his connections to SpajiÃÂ. PES denied the accusations against Spajiàand stated that Do Kwon signed the letter under AbazoviÃÂ's orders. PES won around 25% of the popular vote in the parliamentary election, gaining the most seats in the Parliament of Montenegro. Following the election, Do Kwon denied that he ever financially backed SpajiÃÂ.
On 10 August 2023, President Jakov MilatoviÃÂ gave SpajiÃÂ a mandate to form the new government. On 30 August 2023, protests were held throughout Montenegro against SpajiÃÂ and his plans to include the ethnic minority parties in the new government due to them being former coalition partners of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and for excluding the pro-Serbian coalition For the Future of Montenegro from the new government formation.
On 31 October 2023, Montenegro's parliament approved a new government, with SpajiÃÂ as Prime Minister.
Between May and June 2025, statements by Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro and Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in which he accused the government of persecuting Serbs and called Chetnik war criminal Pavle ÃÂurià ¡ià"a great hero with an invincible character", were harshly criticized and condemned by SpajiÃÂ, who distanced himself from the church's interference in government affairs.
SpajiÃÂ supports the accession of Montenegro to the European Union but also thinks that Western politicians are "not interested in Montenegro". He claimed that joining NATO was a "good move for Montenegro", but that he would be opposed to deploying Montenegrin soldiers to the Baltic countries. SpajiÃÂ condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which he considers an aggression, and voiced his support for sanctioning Russia, even though he thinks that sanctions would only "strengthen Moscow on its way". SpajiÃÂ is against the proposals of Montenegro revoking the recognition of Kosovo's independence, stating that he thinks that that is "one of the topics behind us". He advocates closer relations between Montenegro and Serbia.
SpajiÃÂ has a daughter with his former partner. He identifies himself as a Montenegrin by ethnicity, and speaks Serbo-Croatian. In addition to his native language, he also speaks English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and French. He is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church.