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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Radovan Stoklasa and Jason Hovet

Slovakian president picks technocrat government after prime minister quits

Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Heger meets with President Zuzana Caputova at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, May 7, 2023. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

Slovak President Zuzana Caputova picked central bank Deputy Governor Ludovit Odor to lead a technocrat government after caretaker Prime Minister Eduard Heger quit on Sunday just months before early elections in September.

Slovakia, a European Union and NATO member, has struggled through months of political uncertainty as Heger's ruling coalition was weakened, coming amid a period of high inflation and war in neighbouring Ukraine.

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