The acting Prime Minister of Slovakia, the conservative Eduard Heger, announced his resignation on Sunday following the refusal of the Slovak president, the liberal Zuzana Caputova. The president will now appoint an Executive of technocrats who will be in office until the early elections scheduled for September 30.
Slovakia has been experiencing a deep political crisis for several months after the conservative populist coalition led by Heger lost a vote of no confidence in mid-December. This week the populist conservative agriculture minister, Samuel Vlcan, resigned amid a scandal over the alleged collection of public subsidies.