Slovak Coalition Frays with Minister’s Removal, Early Election Mooted
- The vote exposed tensions within Prime Minister Robert Fico’s three-party coalition and raised doubts about whether the government could survive until the scheduled election.
- Fico said he would consult the leadership of Smer–Slovak Social Democracy and raised the possibility of an early election in January, which would require parliamentary supermajority approval.
- A government collapse would not automatically trigger an election because Slovakia’s constitution favors forming another cabinet; Fico may instead rebuild the coalition.
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The Slovak Parliament dismissed Minister Tomás Tarabu with the support of the SNS coalition party.
Slovak coalition frays with minister’s removal, early election mooted
A junior party in Slovakia’s leftist-nationalist coalition voted with the parliamentary opposition to dismiss a minister on Tuesday, raising the possibility that pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government could collapse and an early election be held. The move raised questions about the government’s survival a year before a scheduled election, and Fico said he would […]
Slovak coalition frays with minister's removal, early election mooted
Sept 29 - A junior party in Slovakia's leftist-nationalist coalition voted with the parliamentary opposition to dismiss a minister on Tuesday, raising the possibility that pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico's government could collapse and an early election be held. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Slovak Parliament expressed its mistrust to the Vice-Premier and Minister of the Environment, Tomás Taraba, who may be removed from the government of Robert Fitzo ' s parliamentary majority.
The Slovak National Party joined forces with the opposition on Tuesday and voted in parliament to dismiss its own Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba (for the SNS). 77 MPs raised their hands in favor of his dismissal, definitively ending the months-long conflict between Taraba and SNS chairman Andrej Danko.
President Pellegrini will dismiss Taraba from the position of Minister of the Environment tomorrow.
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