(ANSA-AFP) - BRATISLAVA, MAR 24 - Slovak Prime Minister Igor
Matovic came under intense pressure Wednesday to step down over
his handling of the Covid crisis after the president called for
him to resign and several ministers quit the cabinet. Foreign
and European Affairs Minister Ivan Korcok and Education Minister
Branislav Grohling both announced they were resigning on
Wednesday in a dispute that is tearing up the four-party
coalition government. Six ministers, including the health
minister, have left the 16-member cabinet so far at a time when
Slovakia is struggling to cope with what is currently the third
highest Covid-19 death rate in the world. Matovic's critics
accuse him of poor communication and political missteps during
the crisis and his decision to buy Russia's Spoutnik V vaccine
proved highly divisive within his own government. Korcok called
the vaccine "a hybrid war tool". President Zuzana Caputova on
Tuesday joined the calls for Matovic to resign saying it was
"essential" that he step down to end the political crisis.
(ANSA-AFP).
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