Prime minister won’t ask parliament for vote of confidence

Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) stated at a press conference on Tuesday that he's of the opinion that there's no need to initiate a vote of confidence in the Government in Parliament. Heger claimed that the prime minister is supposed to initiate such a vote when a government is established, and it's not required to have Parliament's confidence approved regularly. Nevertheless, Heger conceded that he and his now minority Cabinet would not survive such a vote if it came down to it, stating that he might as well resign outright as initiate a vote with 70 coalition MPs. "However, if I resigned now, we wouldn't be able to give people anything. Until the next election, and we don't know when that will take place, Slovakia would be in agony, and we wouldn't be able to adopt any measures for the public. I will not put Slovakia at such a risk," said the prime minister.