A few months before the planned new elections, Slovakia’s interim Prime Minister Heger announced his resignation. He cited disagreements with President Caputova as the reason.
The Slovakian acting head of government Eduard Heger has announced that he will vacate his post. Heger said he asked President Zuzana Caputova to relieve him of his duties.
According to him, the reason is that Caputova has not accepted any of his suggestions as to how he could lead the government in the current crisis. With his resignation, he wanted to give Caputova the opportunity to set up a civil servant government until the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 30, explained Heger.
Heger put off new elections
His conservative-populist government lost a majority in parliament last summer and was overthrown by a vote of no confidence in December. Since then, Heger has continued to run official business on behalf of the President – albeit with limited powers.
Caputova had commissioned Heger to enable new elections in a timely manner. However, the acting head of government delayed this until September – according to polls, he is threatened with a serious defeat. In the past few days, Heger’s position has also been weakened by the resignations of two ministers.
At the beginning of March, the politician announced that he was leaving his Olano party and had founded a new center-right group called the Democrats. The founding members included four other cabinet members from Heger’s former party.
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Heger’s government is among Ukraine’s most determined military supporters. The topic is one of the few where the interim government, the President and a majority in Parliament come to a common denominator. Heger repeatedly warned that new elections could also strengthen forces that question military support for Ukraine. And he warned that the Social Democrats, whom he criticized as corrupt, could come to power.