Government to Seek Confidence Vote After Court Ruling

Bratislava, 17 June (TASR) - The government will ask Parliament to express confidence in it, as required under the Constitutional Act on Budgetary Responsibility, it follows from a document published on the website of the Government Office. The Constitutional Court announced on Wednesday that the government must request a confidence vote from Parliament without delay once it is established that the debt threshold set out in the constitutional law has been exceeded. The ruling stems from the court's interpretation of the Act on Budgetary Responsibility. The interpretation was requested by a group of opposition MPs. According to the applicants, the government's failure to seek a confidence vote during the parliamentary session held from 25 November to 12 December 2025 "constitutes a violation of the principles of parliamentary democracy, the political accountability of the executive, and the rule of law in their substantive meaning". On 21 October 2025, the European statistical office Eurostat published a report stating that Slovakia's public debt had reached 59.7 percent of GDP. In their submission to the Constitutional Court, the MPs pointed out that under the constitutional debt brake law, the government is required to seek a vote of confidence in such circumstances. According to the court's interpretation, Parliament is obliged to consider the request for a confidence vote and decide on it without undue delay. mf