Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic and his government have resigned to ease a political crisis triggered by a secret deal to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
This is the first European government to collapse due to its handling of the pandemic, but the move on Tuesday 30 March 2021 will keep the current four-party coalition in power and avoid the possibility of an early election. The coalition holds a comfortable parliamentary majority..
President Zuzana Caputova accepted the resignation and asked Eduard Heger from Matovic’s Ordinary People party to form a new government.
Heger served as the finance minister and deputy prime minister in the outgoing government. Matovic, who had announced on Sunday 28 March 2021 that he would be making the move, is expected to assume the post of finance minister in the new government.
With few changes anticipated, Heger’s cabinet is expected to be the same as Matovic’s.
The political crisis erupted when a secret deal came to light at the beginning of March involving Slovakia’s agreement to acquire two million doses of Sputnik V.
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