The populist leader was shot multiple times on Wednesday while greeting supporters after a government meeting in Handlova.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation after being shot in an assassination attempt earlier this week and remains in serious condition, according to the country’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Robert Kaliňák.
Fico, 59, was shot multiple times on Wednesday while greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlová, in an attack that has shocked the nation.
A suspect has been arrested.
Miriam Lapunikova, director of the Roosevelt Hospital in Banská Bystrica – where Fico was taken by helicopter after he was shot – said Fico underwent a CT scan, and that he is awake and stable in intensive care.
Despite the fact he is conscious, she described his condition as “very serious”.
She explained that the surgery removed dead tissues that had remained inside Fico’s body.
