Slovakia PM offers to swap roles with finance minister
On Sunday, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic offered to resign from his post and swap places with Finance Minister Eduard Heger, according to DW.
Matovic has come under increasing pressure to relinquish his position for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"We will exchange our posts with minister of finance, Eduard Heger. ... He is a good man and all of us can trust him," Matovic told reporters.
The crisis engulfing his governing coalition erupted when a secret deal to buy Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine came to light three weeks ago.
Six ministers, including the health minister, have already departed from the 16-member Cabinet, and one party has announced that it will no longer be a part of the four-party coalition unless Matovic quits the government entirely.
Matovic and Heger are from the coalition's strongest party, OLANO.
Slovakia has been hit hard by the pandemic, and the standoff began after Matovic ordered a shipment of 2 million Sputnik V doses without his coalition partners' knowledge.
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Editor's note: Eugene Chausovsky is a senior analyst at the Newlines Institute. Chausovsky previously served as senior Eurasia analyst at the geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor for more than 10 years. His work focuses on political, economic, and security issues pertaining to Russia, Eurasia, and the Middle East.
