Slovak govt party supports budget despite crisis

23.11.2007 | , Reuters
Zpravodajství ČTK


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RUZOMBEROK, Slovakia, A junior partner in the Slovak government said on Thursday the party would support the 2008 budget draft regardless of the...

...outcome of a row in the ruling coalition which may topple the country's centre-left government.

The centre-left Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) has been considering leaving the three-party coalition due to a rift with Prime Minister Robert Fico's leftist Smer party over allegations of corruption in an agency supervised by the HZDS.

"Our support for the budget is in place," party secretary Zdenka Kramplova told reporters after the HZDS parliamentary deputies met in the central Slovak town of Ruzomberok. (Reporting by Martin Santa, writing by Jan Lopatka; editing by Leslie Adler) Keywords: SLOVAKIA COALITION/BUDGET

[Reuters/Finance.cz]

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