The minority government of Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger on Tuesday prolonged its agony for two more days after Parliament voted to postpone until Thursday a motion of censure that looks likely to succeed.
With 77 votes in favor, 52 against and 21 abstentions, the Parliament has approved to give the Government two more days to negotiate a solution to the crisis and even the possible calling of early elections, as confirmed by the spokesman of the ruling party, Michal Sipos, according to the newspaper ‘Sme’.
The motion of censure is an initiative of the Freedom and Solidarity party (SaS), which until this summer had been part of a government coalition that now has 70 seats, six less than those needed to be saved from this motion, so it has been trying to persuade the independent deputies.
The opposition argues that the current government has lost its raison d’être, as it has failed to deal effectively with the energy crisis, inflation, rising poverty and the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees.
In turn, they have accused the Minister of Economy and Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Matovic, of having abused his position to carry out his particular vendetta against political rivals.
