Slovak PM steps down over Sputnik V vaccine deal scandal
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Igor Matovic resigns as political crisis triggered by controversial purchase of Russian-made jab reaches climax.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic and his government have resigned to ease a political crisis triggered by a secret deal to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. This is the first European government to collapse due to its handling of the pandemic, but the move on Tuesday will keep the current four-party coalition in power and avoid the possibility of an early election. The coalition holds a comfortable parliamentary majority. President Zuzana Caputova accepted the resignation and asked Eduard Heger from Matovic’s Ordinary People party to form a new government.More Related News