Deputies of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic began to discuss the proposal for a vote of confidence in the government on Thursday morning. At the beginning of the extraordinary 60th meeting, they approved its program. The government asked the parliament for confidence in view of the high public debt, which is in the highest sanction zone of the constitutional law on budget responsibility. The coalition expects that 78 MPs should support it in the parliament.
Deputies will deliberate on Thursday without a lunch break and until the item is discussed, if necessary even after 7 p.m. Subsequently, they will immediately vote on it. At the suggestion of three coalition clubs, they shortened the debate to 12.5 hours. The coalition expects that 78 legislators should support it in the parliament.
The opposition SaS perceives the extraordinary meeting on the motion of confidence in the government as a farce. He reminds that the cabinet should have asked for a vote of confidence already last year, when it had this obligation due to the high public debt. He thinks that it should have been completed then and now the parliament should have had an extraordinary discussion about the economic situation and pro-growth measures. This follows from the statement of the members of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic for SaS at the press conference on Thursday.
“What would help the people and Slovakia would be an extraordinary meeting on the economy, on economic measures, because investors are leaving us, people are losing their jobs, living standards are decreasing, people have less and less money in their wallets,” declared SaS leader and MP Branislav Gröhling.
The liberals reminded that the government should have asked the NR SR for confidence last year according to the constitutional law on budgetary responsibility. “Today’s meeting was supposed to be in November 2025 and today we were supposed to discuss pro-growth measures. Not the ridiculous package of ten measures, but real pro-growth measures,” commented Marián Viskupič (SaS).
