Slovakia’s caretaker prime minister, Eduard Heger, announced he was quitting the former ruling coalition’s strongest party and preparing a new political project ahead of a planned early election in September triggered by the government’s earlier collapse.
(Bloomberg) — Slovakia’s caretaker prime minister, Eduard Heger, announced he was quitting the former ruling coalition’s strongest party and preparing a new political project ahead of a planned early election in September triggered by the government’s earlier collapse.
“I have my own vision of politics,” he wrote on his Facebook page Monday. “I know that if I want to fulfill it, I have to go my own way.”
Heger did not specify his next steps, but had been hinting at leaving the Ordinary People party for several months over differences in values with party chairman Igor Matovic. Several members of the current caretaker government earlier said that Heger should remain in his role as prime minister until the early election even if he exited the party.
His government collapsed in a December vote of no confidence amid failure by the ruling parties to agree on measures to curb the impact of an energy crisis and surging inflation.
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