Slovak Foreign Minister Rastislav Kacer asked President Zuzana Caputova to resign, Aktuality reports..

The minister has not yet personally submitted a resignation letter, as he is on a business trip, but sent a scanned copy of it to the president.

According to media reports, the reason for Kacher's resignation is yesterday's speech by Prime Minister Eduard Heger on the public broadcaster RTVS.

In it, he criticized his political opponents, and also responded to the resignation of Acting Minister of Agriculture Samuel Vlchan.

On Thursday, Vlchan also submitted his resignation over reports that a company linked to his family received about 1.4 million euros in irreversible subsidies from the ministry he heads.. The Ministry of Agriculture sees no violation of the law either by this company or by it.

The resignation of the head of the Slovak Foreign Ministry takes place against the backdrop of the country's preparations for early elections to be held in late September. They were preceded by a vote of no confidence in the coalition government after one of the parties, the libertarian SaS, left it in September last year..

SaS joined a left-wing opposition party in a no-confidence vote in December, accusing the government of not helping people cope with high energy prices..

Several ministers have already left the government, citing various reasons.. Heger, after resignations, must take responsibility for each ministry, since new appointments are not possible during the period of the government's temporary duties.

In February, Slovak Foreign Minister Kacer swore at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his policies that play into the hands of the Russian president..

At the end of last year, Rastislav Kacher called on the world to stop trying to negotiate with Putin, recalling that in the 20th century, such methods did not work with Adolf Hitler, who, despite the diplomatic attempts of European politicians, still started the Second World War.