Skip to main content

Slovakian prime minister resigns, swaps roles with finance minister

Slovakian prime minister resigns, swaps roles with finance minister

Slovakian Prime Minister Igor Matovic made the surprise announcement on Sunday that he was resigning and would swap roles with Finance Minister Eduard Heger, paving the way out of a government crisis.

The change at the head of government was announced jointly in Bratislava after consultations between the party leaders of three of the four coalition parties.

Heger, who belongs to Matovic’s party Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO), announced talks with all coalition partners and said he would meet with President Zuzana Caputova on Monday. The president officially nominates the prime minister, according to the constitution.

The approval of the liberal party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) was still outstanding in the evening. Its leader, Richard Sulik, resigned as minister of economy and deputy prime minister on Tuesday.

The three other governing parties have a slim parliamentary majority even without SaS.

The four-party coalition had fallen into a serious crisis over a dispute regarding its coronavirus policy. Six of the 16 government members resigned within a matter of days.

The smaller coalition partners SaS and Za Ludi (For the People) blamed Matovic for the high number of coronavirus fatalities in the country and accused him of arrogance.

Another point of contention was that Matovic ordered doses of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V against a decision of his own government, and personally picked them up at the airport.

Critics in the coalition however said the main problem was not the vaccine but Matovic’s “intolerable governing style.”

A week ago, Matovic already offered to resign under certain conditions, including that all his critics in the coalition should leave government.

The post Slovakian prime minister resigns, swaps roles with finance minister appeared first on Vanguard News.


https://ift.tt/3cxQNvw by David O Royal via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to jump-start Nigeria economy post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Nwali Tochukwu Watching with consternation the fall out of events, actions, and inactions of our Nigerian leaders on mitigating the negative impact of COVID-19 Pandemic disruptions on our social and economic lives. As a young dynamic business and entrepreneurship writer, and author cum small business owner, what came into my mind as we navigate the storms of COVID-19, was a common English phrase Adages, Proverbs, first recorded in Fuller’s Gnomologia, 1732: ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ which was translated to literally, solve the problems right now! Why procrastinating? If we, as a nation wants to break away from past mistakes, and present mistakes, we should hold the bull by the horn right now. And avoid the roads of political expediency. That is exactly what the stitch in time simply stood for. Promptly address issues posed by Coronavirus. By quickly sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more stitching at a later date when the whole ha...
2 comments
Read more

Where is Aguleri Located?

Aguleri is a prominent town often associated with the mighty river called Omabala wgiyflows through it. It is home to a lot of great men and women of Anambra Stare - notably Willie Obiano. History had it that it was the cradle of Igbo people established by Eri, son of Had, son of Jacob (you got to read your Bible babe). Where is Aguleri located? It can be foueat the north eastern part of Nigeria. They share boundaries with Kano, Umueri, Anam and Nando httpss://twitter.com/share https://google.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com https://www.quantcast.com/google.com https://sharedcount.com/?url=https://google.com https://www.similarsites.com/site/google.com https://facebook.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com https://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com https://sharedcount.com/?url=https://facebook.com https://www.similarsites.com/site/facebook.com https://youtube.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youtube.com https://www.quantcast.com/youtube.com ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Media Women Forum begins awareness of mental wellbeing

By Yetunde Arebi Media Women Forum has begun a campaign to create awareness of mental wellbeing. The group organized a Webinar on Saturday  27, 2020 to draw public attention to the need for people especially women to protect their mental wellbeing. The group noted that there is an unpleasant development,  whereby women in their early 40s are dying of heart attack, stroke, and depression. In her opening address Olori  Janet Afolabi, CNN award-winning journalist, Oueen of Apomu Kingdom said different challenges are attacking people mentally. Also read: African Consuls General hold dialogue with Diaspora leaders, U.S. officials “A lot of women worry about their marriages, families, loss of a job, loss of loved ones, domestic violence, sex abuse, and rape. The effects of these unseen, unspoken but piercing emotional pains are creating scars in the minds of women. The scars have sent some women to the grave while some are living  with it.” Olori Janet, therefore, ad...
Post a Comment
Read more