BRATISLAVA, September 14, (WEBNOVINY) – Prime Minister Iveta Radicova (SDKU-DS) has survived the opposition’s attempt to oust her. On Wednesday morning, sixty-nine deputies voted to recall her and seventy-eight were against the initiative. No deputy refrained from voting. At least seventy-six votes are necessary to oust the prime minister.
The vote itself was proceeded by a thirteen-hour discussion, lasting all night, during which the opposition and the coalition blamed each other for past and recent cases. The opposition initiated the parliamentary no-confidence motion in the prime minister due to her “obvious incapability to head the government and adopt important economic, social and financial decisions.” Furthermore, the largest opposition party SMER-SD blamed the government for growing prices due to an increase of VAT to twenty percent, decline in real wages, the country’s growing debt, and transferring the burden of crisis onto people with low and medium incomes.
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