BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia‘s coalition government said on Tuesday it had agreed on a replacement for Transport Minister Gabriel Palacka. Palacka‘s resignation on Monday was the first departure from the reformist four-party government since it came to power in elections last September. Palacka, who quit amid allegations of corruption in his ministry and incompetence, had been widely predicted to leave the government after discussions on a potential cabinet reshuffle on Friday. „I introduced a proposal for Palacka‘s replacement to my coalition partners, and later on I will hand this proposal to the president,“ Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda told journalists after the coalition meeting on Tuesday. Dzurinda refused to name Palacka‘s replacement immediately, only saying the new transport minister would be nominated by the same party, his Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK). „We discussed the matter today, and all coalition partners accepted the replacement and that the new minister would be also from SDK,“ the leader of the reformed communist party, Jozef Migas, said. The coalition government is comprised of the SDK, the ethnic Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK), the reformed communist Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) and the centre left Party of Civic Understanding (SOP). The coalition won a sweeping victory last September, defeating the nationalist-populist government of premier Vladimir Meciar amid promises to root out corruption, restore economic prosperity and revitalise the democracy. But its own efforts at accelerating the privatisation of state property have provoked accusations of cronyism. Among the most heavily criticised cases was a tender for an adviser on the sale of a minority stake in the state fixed-line telecommunications monopoly, run by Palacka‘s ministry. A government inquiry into a tender last month uncovered several legal violations. Last Friday, leaders of the coalition rejected calls for a reshuffle, saying they had agreed instead to prepare a comprehensive evaluation of progress made in implementing the government‘s programme.