Slovak President Zuzana Caputová on Friday accepted the resignation tendered by questioned Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Igor Matovic, thus fulfilling her promise for the 2023 budgets to be approved by part of the opposition.
Caputová has for the time being placed in the interim position the prime minister, Eduard Heger, Matovic’s colleague in Common People (OLaNO), the largest party of the weak coalition government, of which he has always been considered the real boss.
Matovic himself promised the opposition that if they approved the budgets he would resign as they demanded, especially the former coalition partner, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), and he did so on Friday, reports the TA3 television channel.
The SaS liberals left the coalition in September after more than two years of disputes with Matovic, whom they reproached for his haughty behavior and for directing criticism at his partners through social networks, as well as for abusing his position as Minister of Economy to take revenge on his political rivals.
Matovic’s resignation comes a week after the government also failed to pass a no-confidence motion, so he has been acting since then. Hager hopes that this departure will motivate SaS to return to the coalition and thus avoid new early elections.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
