ats, voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to quit the ruling coalition after one of its ministers was sacked. The Socialists will now operate as a minority government for the two years before the next elections due in 2010. “There have been no real reforms in the past few years, that is why we have got to this point... If this is a marriage, this marriage has not been working for some time,” Free Democrat leader Janos Koka told delegates at a party conference. The motion to quit the coalition was passed by 434 votes with 53 against and 32 abstentions.