BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The Slovak parliament‘s planned 11th attempt to vote in a president on August 6 has been cancelled because no candidiates were put forward, the office of the chairman of parliament said on Tuesday. Slovakia has not had a president since March 2 when Michal Kováč‘s term of office expired. No successor has been found because the deeply divided parliament cannot agree on a compromise candidate and no one political grouping is strong enough to get the necessary three-fifths majority in parliament. „The August 6 vote has been cancelled because there were no candidates and no new date has been set yet,“ an official at Ivan Gašparovič‘s office said. All sides of the political spectrum publicly acknowledge that Slovakia is likely to remain without a head of state until after parliamentary elections in September. The Slovak president fulfils a number of constitutionally important functions including, crucially, the appointment of a new government after the general election. While most presidential powers have passed to the prime minister, Vladimír Mečiar, this power had remained in limbo until parliament unanimously agreed earlier this month to vest appointment rights in the chairman of parliament. This move was designed to avert a post-election constitutional crisis in which there was no established procedure for the resignation of the outgoing government or the installation of a successor.