Slovenia's Prime Minister Marjan Sarec has announced he is stepping down in a bid to push for a snap election, the national news agency STA reported on Monday morning.

The reason for Sarec's resignation is that “he could not achieve what he set out to do with the current minority coalition,” the news agency said.

Sarec announced his decision at a news conference in Ljubljana.

After that, the finance minister in his cabinet, Andrej Bertoncelj, also resigned.

“Finance Minister Andrej Bertoncelj has stepped down, presumably over differences regarding a bill scrapping top-up health insurance. The Finance Ministry cited ‘technical reasons’,” the STA news agency says explaining that details are to be presented by Prime Minister Marjan Sarec in a statement.