Opposition Leader Calls on Coalition Partner to Leave Government Over Harm to Slovakia

Michal Šimečka, leader of the opposition Progressive Slovakia party, called on Andrej Danko to withdraw from the ruling coalition with Prime Minister Robert Fico. Šimečka argued that the coalition is damaging Slovakia and accused Fico of prioritizing personal loyalists rather than citizens' welfare. The opposition leader claimed that Danko had simply acknowledged what everyone can already see about the government's direction. Progressive Slovakia is the main opposition party in Slovakia's National Council, while Danko leads the Slovak National Party, a smaller nationalist party that forms part of Fico's ruling coalition alongside the dominant Smer-SD social-democratic party.