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Slovakian president picks technocrat government after prime minister quits

Slovak President Zuzana Caputova picked central bank Deputy Governor Ludovit Odor to lead a technocrat government after caretaker Prime Minister Eduard Heger quit on Sunday just months before early elections in September, Reuters reports.

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Slovakia, a European Union and NATO member, has struggled through months of political uncertainty as Heger's ruling coalition was weakened, coming amid a period of high inflation and war in neighbouring Ukraine.

Odor, 46, has been a deputy governor of the National Bank of Slovakia since 2018.

Slovakia lurched into crisis in September last year when Heger's ruling centre-right coalition lost its majority after the libertarian SaS party quit, unhappy with efforts to help people hit by soaring energy and food costs.

Heger lost a no-confidence motion in December and, in January, lawmakers agreed to early elections in September.

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