The smallest of Slovakia’s ruling coalition parties, the liberal SaS, threatened today to quit the government if Finance Minister Igor Matovic does not resign by the end of August.
SaS has 19 MPs in Slovakia’s 150-seat parliament and its departure would deprive the government of Edward Heger of a parliamentary majority. Matovic is the chairman of the prime minister’s OLANO party.
“The biggest problem of our coalition is called Igor Matovic (…) Prime Minister Eduard Heger should solve the problem, unfortunately, nothing is being done,” SaS leader and Finance Minister Richard Sulik said at a press conference after party leadership meeting.
Sulik said his party would withdraw from the cooperation agreement with OLANO and would like a new deal by the end of August that would not include Matovic in the government.
Sulik has clashed with Matovic several times – most recently in June, when the finance minister leaned on lawmakers from a far-right opposition party to push through a bill aimed at tackling high energy prices and inflation.
A little earlier, the OLANO party rejected Matovic’s resignation from the government, stressing that it will not support the proposal to call early elections. Through the party’s Facebook page, Heger called for stability, saying the government has launched reforms and projects favorable to the country, which must be completed. The government took office in March 2020.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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