BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia’s President Peter Pellegrini swore in a new minister of tourism and sports on Wednesday in a reshuffle aimed to stabilize the government.
The appointment of Rudolf Huliak came two weeks after the three parties in the governing coalition agreed on a move to increase the power of the Smer (Direction) party of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Under the agreement, the coalition’s two junior partners — the Hlas (Voice) party and the ultranationalist and pro-Russian Slovak National Party — gave up control of one ministry each to Smer.
