Zuzana Čaputová has appointed a Government of experts, not politicians, to run Slovakia after months of crisis. The new government, which is set to begin its mandate on 15 May, consists solely of experts and does not have any ministers from the political parties. The caretaker government that was in power since December fell apart last week when caretaker Prime Minister Eduard Heger also offered his resignation. In his place, Čaputová - Slovakia’s first female president, who boasts high support among Western allies - selected an expert government, headed by Ľudovít Ódor, who had until then served as vice-governor of the National Bank of Slovakia. The government collapsed almost exactly a year later in 2021, when news leaked that they had signed a secret deal to obtain the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. Elections were prevented by a reshuffle, which is when Matovič’s deputy in the OL

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