“An early election would not bring any stability.”President Andrej Kiska accepted the resignation and asked Peter Pellegrini, Fico’s deputy prime minister, to form a new government. The move is meant to keep the current three-party coalition in power and avoid the possibility of an early election. BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA—Slovak prime minister Robert Fico and his government resigned Thursday as a way out of the political crisis triggered by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The reporter also wrote about corruption scandals linked to Fico’s leftist Smer Social Democracy party. Earlier this week, the Most-Hid coalition party called for holding an early election but the party leadership changed its mind after Fico offered his resignation.

Source: thestar March 15, 2018 22:52 UTC