FILE PHOTO: President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska designates Peter Pellegrini for the new Slovak prime minister, at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/David W. Cerny
March 20, 2018
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – President Andrej Kiska will make a statement on the country’s political situation at 11:45 a.m. (6.45 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, his office said, after demonstrations following the murder of an investigative journalist forced a government reshuffle.
Kiska is also due to meet organisers on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m (10 a.m. ET) of the country-wide protests, the biggest in Slovakia since the 1989 anti-communist rallies.
Robert Fico, head of the ruling Smer party and prime minister for 10 of the last 12 years, resigned last week to try to keep his three-party coalition in power. To replace him, he has proposed deputy prime minister Peter Pellegrini, who submitted his cabinet nominations to the president on Monday.
(Reporting by Tatiana Jancarikova and Jason Hovet; Editing by Catherine Evans)
