As of Monday, the governing coalition is in a minority of 74 MPs in a 150 seat Slovak Parliament, after the MP of the junior governing Slovak-Hungairan Most-Híd party Katarína Cséfalvayová left the party's caucus and the government, too. Cséfalvayová followed her party colleague Martin Fedor, who left on Friday. Nevertheless, the government should be able to continue, as three to four independent MPs regularly vote with the coalition (three former MPs for the opposition We are family party, one former member of the former governing Network party, which merged with the governing Most-Híd).
The coalition started as a quartet of Smer-SD, Slovak National Party, Most-Híd and Network parties with 85 MPs. However, right after the announcement of this formation three members of Network and one of Most-Híd left, leaving the government with 81 seats in April 2016. A few months later, the Network party collapsed, with some members moving to Most-Híd and leaving the coalition with 79 MPs.
In the first half of 2018, after the murder of the investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, the government lost another three members. Those had been the last departures until last week.
The departures of Cséfalvayová and Fedor from Most-Híd came after disputes in the media about the possible imploding of the party from within. Nevertheless, the party's chair Béla Bugár denied the rumors last weekend. The last few polls indicated that Most-Híd would be left out of parliament in the upcoming election in early 2020. Moreover, the party failed to create a coalition with the ethnic non-parliamentary Hungarian Coalition Party in September. Nevertheless, Bugár said that members of the Hungarian Coalition can still run for Parliament on Most-Híd's list of candidates.
