Hlas-SD Leader Distances Himself from Coalition Partner's Attacks on Prime Minister
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Matúš Šutaj Eštok, leader of the Hlas-SD party, has distanced himself from verbal attacks made by Andrej Danko against Prime Minister Robert Fico, stating that voters do not want to see parliamentarians "fighting like dogs." Šutaj Eštok guaranteed that all Hlas-SD parliamentarians will support the government in any confidence vote. The tensions highlight rifts within Slovakia's ruling coalition, which consists of Fico's Smer-SD party as the dominant partner, along with Hlas-SD and Danko's Slovak National Party (SNS). Hlas-SD is a center-left party that split from Smer-SD in 2020, while SNS represents nationalist positions in the coalition government.