Parliament has been discussing the no-confidence motion in Government for two days. The vote itself should take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, December 13. Richard Sulik, the leader of former member of the government party SaS said that 20 MPs from his caucus will back the proposal and express no-confidence in the Government. The MPs around the extraparliamentary Voice-SD party will support the motion as well, while the opposition Smer-SD party said that it will always vote for dismissal, regardless of whether the motion concerns a cabinet member or the whole Government. Coalition MP Martin Borgula said that he would also support the proposal, as will Independent MP Tomas Valasek.
If the no-confidence motion in the government is successful, it would open the way for the full and sensible reconstruction of the cabinet and in such a case, the Freedom and Solidarity party would support its continued governance, its leader Richard Sulik declared during his explanation of the SaS-sponsored no-confidence motion on Thursday. In such a scenario, the SaS would not re-join the government, said Sulik, and added that any calling for a snap election makes little sense time-wise at this point. He cited chaos, mismanagement, the inability of the OLaNO party to filter out the bad ideas of its leader and Finance Minister Igor Matovic, the disrespect for rules and the inability to pass measures in a timely and proper legislative process as reasons for initiating the no-confidence motion.
When the SaS party was leaving the coalition in the summer, it promised it would never topple the incumbent government, Prime Minister Eduard Heger claimed in his speech in Parliament during a debate on the no-confidence motion in his government. Heger asked the SaS party, which had initiated the motion, to "return from the shortcut route" because it is their votes that will matter. He pointed to the events of 2011, when then-opposition led by Robert Fico had been awaiting the fall of the government and an early election. Heger underlined that at stake today is Slovakia’s democracy itself.
The Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party of Richard Sulik are a bunch of hypocrites and "erudite experts in government-toppling", House Chair Boris Kollar declared during a debate on the no-confidence motion in the government on Thursday. Kollar declared that if anyone needed to topple a government in, for instance, Russia, China or North Korea, all they have to do is summon the SaS to the task.
