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The fate of Slovakia’s minority government hung in the balance on Thursday as opposition parties launched a no-confidence motion and the cabinet scrambled to win support for its budget and planned windfall taxes on the energy sector.

Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger listens during a news conference in Tallinn, Estonia November 11, 2022.Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger listens during a news conference in Tallinn, Estonia November 11, 2022.

The government, in power since 2020, lost its majority in September when a junior coalition partner, the libertarian SaS party, left after clashes with the main ruling Ordinary People party, mainly over the handling of the energy crisis. The no-confidence motion, called by the SaS party and the Hlas party of former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, could be close as the opposition controls around 70 votes and still needs six more from various independents to succeed.“It’s very open, because some of the opposition lawmakers, who have supported the government so far, are ambiguous, while the ruling coalition doesn’t have a majority,” Radoslav Stefancik, a political analyst at Slovakia’s University of Economics, says.

 

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