The resigned government of Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger has agreed with its former coalition partner, the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party, to approve the 2023 budget in exchange for the departure of the finance minister.
«We have finished hours of negotiations and I am happy to announce that we have an agreement,» Heger explained, adding that in exchange for SaS support for his government’s accounts Finance Minister Igor Matovic will leave his post, daily ‘Dennik N’ reported.
Thus, the Prime Minister will have to temporarily take over the management of the Ministry of Finance. The agreed budget, which includes spending limits requested by the European Commission (EC), will have to be approved on Thursday by the Slovak Parliament.
«It is also very important for us to be able to deliver aid to the people, so that they are not hindered by legislative restrictions that may occur if there is a provisional budget,» said, for his part, Richard Sulík, the leader of SaS, the party that was part of the government coalition with its six seats until the summer.
Sulik, however, has made it clear that the negotiations to form a new government have been separated from the budgets and that, for the moment, no progress has been made to unravel the political situation in the country in view of possible early elections.
There is the problem that Slovakia’s Constitution does not allow for early elections, but the Supreme Court has raised the option of amending the Magna Carta with the approval of a three-fifths majority of 90 members of Parliament.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
