Slovak party to nominate new minister to unblock government formation

(Reuters) – Slovak nationalist party SNS will nominate a new candidate to become environment minister to unblock the path to a new government being formed, the party’s original nominee, Rudolf Huliak, said on Tuesday.

President Zuzana Caputova’s had rejected Huliak’s nomination after it was presented by Robert Fico, whose leftist SMER-SSD party won a Sept.

30 election and is forming a government with SNS and another party.

(Reporting by Jan Lopatka and Jason Hovet in Prague)

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