President meets Kollar over crisis in coalition

President Zuzana Caputova said on Facebook on Tuesday that she had received Parliamentary Speaker Boris Kollar (We Are Family) in order to discuss the current situation within the ruling coalition. The coalition has been experiencing internal disputes for quite some time now. The tension was exacerbated when Prime Minister Igor Matovic announced last week that Slovakia was set to purchase two million doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine. Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and For the People have been pushing for an overhaul of the cabinet, with We Are Family also inclining towards its reconstruction. The coalition continues to hold talks on the further functioning of the current government. The SaS caucus and the leadership of We Are Family are supposed to hold their respective sessions on Wednesday.