President Zuzana Chaputova will appoint the official composition of the government after 15 May. The “government of experts” team, he said, has been formed.
The head of Slovakia’s new government will be the vice-chairman of the National Bank of Slovakia, Ludovit Odor, President Zuzana Caputova said in a media statement on Sunday, Pravda wrote.
Chaputova will appoint the official composition of the government after May 15. The “government of experts” team, she said, has been formed.
The President announced his decision after today’s meetings with the head of the National Council Boris Kollar and takes action. Prime Minister Eduard Geger, who at the weekend asked to be released from his mandate to lead the government.
According to the president, the government that will emerge as a result of early elections in September will be formed in a few weeks, and therefore “half a year is a long enough time for a government of experts to stabilize the situation in Slovakia.”
The president said that he has been preparing the alternative government appointment of experts for longer, which is why he already has a cabinet. “They must complete their obligations in their current jobs, and therefore I will appoint a new government within a week after May 15,” Chaputova specified, adding that in the coming days she will first notify the leaders of the political parties, and then the public. about specific names. .
Ludovit Odor has been Vice President of the National Bank since 2018.
In 2003-2005, he was Chief Economist and Director of the Financial Policy Institute under the Ministry of Finance. He was then a member of the banking council of the National Bank until September 2010. Subsequently, he was an advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance until 2012. In 2012, Parliament elected him as a member of the Council for Budgetary Responsibility. Since 2016 he has been a visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest (CEU).
It should be noted that Ludovit Odor is an ethnic Hungarian, a native of the city of Komarno, where there is a large Hungarian community. Odor told refresher.sk that he attended Hungarian-medium elementary and secondary school and for a long time he only had a passive command of Slovak.
In the past, Slovakia had several ministers of Hungarian nationality, and Béla Bugar was the vice-speaker of the Slovak parliament, but a Hungarian had never headed the Slovak government.
Recall that at the end of April, Chaputova, together with the Czech President Petr Pavel, visited Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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