Failed Edward Heger The Slovak government led the parliament’s vote on a motion of no confidence against it on Thursday new word.
MTI wrote that after several vote delays, the 150-member Bratislava legislature, whose 102 deputies took part in the vote, withdrew its confidence from Heger’s government, which has been in parliamentary minority rule since September, by a slim majority. By 78 votes to 20. Some representatives of the ruling party left the meeting room before the vote.
Liberals who left the previous government coalition in September – the Freedom and Solidarity Movement (SaS) led by Richard Sollick – and some other opposition representatives put forward a motion of no confidence in the government, claiming that “the government is not able to solve people’s problems and stop fighting the mafia and corruption”. The government coalition rejected these accusations and responded by saying that the liberals act only with their individual political calculations and ignore the interests of the population and the country.
Parliament was originally supposed to vote on the motion of no confidence in the government on Tuesday, but at the last minute it was postponed to Thursday at the suggestion of a pro-government representative, claiming that there would be more time for consultations than before. vote. On Thursday, Finance Minister Igor Matović, the leader of the largest ruling party, Simple People and Independent Figures (OLaNO), offered to resign in exchange for the Liberals withdrawing their no-confidence motion. The Liberals—whose leader Richard Sollick had long been at personal odds with Matović—rejected the offer.
The future of the government in Bratislava is currently in doubt, and the issue of creating a new government coalition and the possibility of early elections has been raised. After the fall of the government, the next year’s budget also stalled, and its adoption was delayed due to a motion of no confidence. If the next year’s budget is not approved, and thus the state will start next year with a temporary budget, the feasibility of the measure, announced by the government a few weeks ago, which allows freezing residential energy prices, becomes questionable.
(MTI)
