Matovič resigns as prime minister
On 30 March 2021 Igor Matovič stepped down as Slovak prime minister after the coalition crisis over the purchase of Sputnik V vaccines. President Zuzana Čaputová accepted the resignation and asked finance minister Eduard Heger, from Matovič's OĽaNO party, to form a new government, in which Matovič took the finance ministry.
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On 30 March 2021 Igor Matovič stepped down as Slovak prime minister after the coalition crisis over the purchase of Sputnik V vaccines. President Zuzana Čaputová accepted the resignation and asked finance minister Eduard Heger, from Matovič's OĽaNO party, to form a new government, in which Matovič took the finance ministry.
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Matovič resigns as prime minister. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.aljazeera.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: sputnik+matovi · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Matovič resigns as prime minister. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/matovic-resigns-prime-minister-2021-03-30
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