Slovak President Zuzana Caputova appoints a new centre-right coalition government amid coronavirus pandemic
Slovakia's newly appointed members of the government wearing protective face masks pose for a group photo at Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 21, 2020.
Matovic and his team were sworn in at a ceremony with participants wearing facial masks as a precaution against coronavirus. Slovakia has reported 137 cases of it this month and no deaths. The government replaced a centre-left Smer party-led administration that has ruled the country through a period of economic growth since 2012, and for 12 of the last 14 years.
"Bearing in mind our responsibility and the burden we received, that is the coronavirus pandemic, we have signed a deal so that we could make good on our promise to make Slovakia a country that all honest people could be proud of," Matovic said after the parties signed their coalition deal.
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