Fico Backs Taraba But Prioritizes Coalition Majority as Danko Plans Dismissal Motion

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has expressed support for a government minister identified as Taraba while acknowledging that maintaining his parliamentary majority takes priority, as parliamentary speaker Andrej Danko prepares to propose the minister's dismissal. Fico, who leads the ruling Smer-SD social democratic party, has called a meeting of the country's three highest constitutional officials to address the developing political crisis. The dispute threatens the stability of Slovakia's governing coalition, which holds a narrow majority in the National Council, the country's parliament. Danko heads the Slovak National Party, a nationalist party that forms part of Fico's coalition government alongside the populist Hlas party.