BRATISLAVA, March 15, 2018 (Reuters) - Slovakia's president accepted Prime Minister Robert Fico's resignation yesterday and asked his deputy to form a new government, as political leaders tried to ease a crisis provoked by the murder of a journalist. The killing of 27-year-old reporter Jan Kuciak, who investigated fraud involving businessmen with political ties, has fueled public anger over corruption and led to the biggest protests in the central European nation since the fall of communism nearly three decades ago. Facing calls for early elections, the three-party coalition government agreed on Wednesday that Fico would resign, provided that President Andrej Kiska allowed the outgoing prime minister's Smer party to pick his successor.
