The acting prime minister of Slovakia, the conservative Eduard Heger, announced his resignation on Sunday after the refusal of the Slovak president, the liberal Zuzana Caputova, to accept his proposals to replace two ministers who had resigned this week.
As reported today by the Slovak Spectator news portal, the president will now appoint an executive of technocrats who will be in office until the early elections scheduled for next September 30. Slovakia has been experiencing a deep political crisis for several months after the populist conservative coalition led by Heger lost a vote of no confidence in mid-December. Since then, the prime minister has been in charge of an interim government, which must consult the president for a series of decisions, such as the replacement of ministers in the event of resignation.
This week the Minister of Agriculture, the populist conservative Samuel Vlcan, resigned amid a scandal over the alleged collection of public subsidies for one of his companies. Another member of the Heger Executive, the Foreign Minister, the independent Rastislav Kácer, announced his resignation after the prime minister spoke in a televised speech of a “chaotic crisis” in the Government.
Slovakia has so far provided significant military aid to neighboring Ukraine, something that could change after the elections as the leading party in the polls, the Social Democrat Smer, is pro-Russian.
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