Pandemic management is causing a political crisis in Slovakia

Slovakia’s Health Minister Marek Krazi has announced his resignation in a bid to ease the political crisis sparked by allegations of mismanagement by the government.

“Two small parties in the ruling coalition have made my resignation a condition of their stay in government. I do not want to be an obstacle in any way, that is why I am resigning“, The minister stressed to journalists.

The center-right four-party ruling coalition is under pressure over its policies to deal with Covid-19, at a time when per capita disease death rate in the country is the second highest in the world, behind the Czech Republic, neighboring state.

Two of these ruling coalition parties, the SaS and Za Ludi, insist on a government reshuffle formed in March 2020 led by Igor Matovic, the leader of the OLaNO party, following the controversial purchase of two million doses of Russian Sputnik V embol. .

Matovic, for his part, denounced “an immoral decision by our coalition partners”, believing that Kratzi should remain in his post as health minister until the Sputnik V vaccination campaign is in full swing.

«We do not want anyone to block the use of the Russian vaccine“, He added.

Slovakia, an EU member state with a population of 5.4 million, also has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 infections in the world, according to official figures compiled by Agence France-Presse.

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