(HRNW) – Slovak centre-right Prime Minister Eduard Heger, serving in a caretaker capacity after losing a no-confidence vote last month, said on Monday he would seek to put together a new parliamentary majority in the coming days to finish his full four-year term.
Heger s government fell after a libertarian coalition partner, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS,) pulled out of the cabinet in September and together with several other government deputies turned against the cabinet in a December vote.
President Zuzana Caputova, as well as some politicians, including members of the current coalition, have called for an an election due next year to be brought forward, but Heger said he believed he could succeed in forming a majority.
“My ambition is to collect 76 votes so we can continue until the end of the election period,” Heger said in recorded comments sent to reporters.
He said he believed his centre-right, Christian OLANO party would win support from his coalition partner Sme Rodina (We Are Family) and it was reaching out to the SaS party.