Slovenia was inching toward a new ruling coalition on Friday, as Prime Minister Janez Jansa's crumbling alliance was left by another partner over corruption allegations.
Foreign and health ministers Karel Erjavec and Tomaz Gantar resigned, completing the previously announced split of their Pensioners Party (DeSUS) from Jansa's Democratic Party (SDS).
DeSUS followed the Civic List (DL), which earlier exited the coalition over Jansa's refusal to resign in the wake of an official state report accusing him of corruption.
The January report by the state anti-corruption commission alleged that Jansa failed to report income totaling 210,000 euros (285,000 dollars). He denied any wrongdoing and said the report was politically motivated.
Jansa's cabinet lost its majority in parliament with the withdrawal of Civic List from the coalition in January.
The Adriatic nation's conservative premier said he wants to continue with a minority cabinet, but he is now flanked only by two small parties - both of which had also asked him to face up to graft allegations.
A new coalition could be built around the opposition Positive Slovenia (PS), the largest single party in parliament.
However, the PS leader and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic had been implicated in the same report on graft for failing to report 2.4 million euros in income.
In response, Jankovic "suspended" his leadership over the PS until the end of 2013. However, that step did not go far enough for other party leaders, who are weary of making a deal with another graft-tainted politician, to forge an alliance with the PS.
On Friday, Jankovic hinted that he may step down to clear the path for a new coalition. The PS already proposed its provisional leader, Alenka Bratusek, for prime minister.
Slovenia's export-oriented economy was caught unprepared for the crisis and the country has been tottering on the verge of bankruptcy.
Austerity measures it needs to implement in order to restore the confidence of financial markets in the eurozone country have already brought down the previous Socialist-led government, which forced snap elections in December 2011.