Slovak president appointed new Government

BRATISLAVA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Slovak President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini to be the new prime minister on Thursday. He also appointed the remaining members of the new Government.

Pellegrini has assumed the post after taking an oath prescribed by the Constitution. The new government has several new persons.

Richard Rasi has become vice prime minister for investments and informatisation, Tomas Drucker takes the post of interior minister, Andrea Kalavska that of health minister, Lubica Lassakova becomes culture minister and Gabor Gal is justice minister.

Other ministries have not seen changes at their helm.

The new Government also adopted the manifesto on Thursday. The ministers agreed to continue smoothly in meeting the manifesto that was approved by the previous government on April 26, 2016. It pledged to pay attention to people's real lives rather than to political polarisation and the division of society.

"The Government that was appointed by the president today consists of exactly the same political parties that two years ago drew up the Government Manifesto and we want to meet the Manifesto to the very end. We need to get back to work immediately, this country has been slightly paralysed for three weeks," stressed Pellegrini.

The confidence vote in the new Government in Parliament might take place as soon as on Friday (March 23). Enditem