OLaNO leader and future prime minister Igor Matovič has presented the composition of the new Government, which will be appointed by President Zuzana Čaputová on Saturday. The president has stated that she accepts all the nominated candidates.
The OLaNO party will take charge of seven ministries. The list of individual ministerial nominations is as follows:
Finance Minister - Eduard Heger; Interior Minister - Roman Mikulec; Health Minister - Marek Krajčí; Defence Minister - Jaroslav Naď; Agriculture Minister - Ján Mičovský; Environment Minister - Ján Budaj; and Culture Minister - Natália Milanová. Matovič himself is set to become Prime Minister.
The We Are Family (Sme rodina) party will have three ministerial seats in the cabinet. Milan Krajniak has been nominated for the post of Labour Minister, while Andrej Doležal will head the Transport Ministry and Štefan Holý will be Vice-Premier for Legislation and Strategic Planning. We Are Family head Boris Kollar has been nominated for the post of Speaker of Parliament.
The Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party will be responsible for three ministries. Branislav Grohling will head the Ministry of Education and Ivan Korčok the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while SaS chief Richard Sulik will be both Economy Minister and first Vice-Premier for the Economy simultaneously.
The For the People party (Za l'udi) has obtained two ministries. Mária Kolíková is set to become Justice Minister, while Veronika Remišová will become Vice-Premier and Minister for Investments and Regional Development. Meanwhile, former President Andrej Kiska has announced that he is renouncing his seat in Parliament due to health reasons, but will keep the post of chairman of the For the People party, a junior member of the emerging government.
Regarding the parliamentary committees, 12 of them should be chaired by the emerging coalition, while the opposition should have seven. The chairpersons of the committees are set to be elected at the opening session of the new parliament on Friday, 20 March. At this meeting, MPs will take an oath to the Slovak Constitution, as well as elect a new parliamentary chair, parliamentary vice-chairs and subsequently the heads of the committees. On the same day that the new parliament meets for the first time, the outgoing government of Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) will resign. The new cabinet, headed by Igor Matovič (OLaNO), will be appointed by President Zuzana Čaputová one day later, on Saturday, March 21st.
