Voice-SD Ready to Approve Government's Request for Vote of Confidence

Bratislava, 17 June (TASR) - The governing Voice-SD party is ready to approve a government request for a vote of confidence, the party's press department has told TASR in reaction to the Constitutional Court's ruling on the matter, adding that MPs for Voice-SD will express their confidence in the government in Parliament. "Voice-SD is ready to immediately approve a government request for a parliamentary vote of confidence due to the so-called debt brake, and MPs for Voice-SD are ready to vote on this request at any time and express confidence in the government," said party spokesperson Michaela Eliasova. According to an interpretation of the constitutional law published by the Constitutional Court earlier on Wednesday, the government is obliged to ask Parliament for a vote of confidence immediately after it is found that the public debt threshold set in the constitutional law has been exceeded. A group of opposition MPs asked the court for its interpretation. According to them, the government's failure to request such a vote during the parliamentary session held between 25 November and 12 December 2025 "constitutes a violation of the principles of parliamentary democracy, the political responsibility of the executive branch and the rule of law in their substantive meanings". On 21 October 2025, European statistics office Eurostat published a report stating that Slovakia's public debt stood at 59.7 percent of GDP. In their submission to the Constitutional Court, the MPs pointed out that under the debt-brake law the government must request a vote of confidence in Parliament in such a case. "If a government that has been informed that the public debt threshold has been crossed via official Eurostat data ignores or circumvents this obligation, it is not merely a violation of a specific legal requirement but interference in the very essence of parliamentary democracy. Such conduct means that the government is deliberately avoiding political scrutiny by Parliament at the moment when that scrutiny is constitutionally most necessary," stated the MPs in their submission. ko/df