BANSKA BYSTRICA — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on May 15, a government minister said.
Robert Fico was shot five times in a "politically motivated" assassination attempt.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok had said earlier that Fico was in a life-threatening condition while he remained in the operating room. The country of 5.4 million has seen polarised political debate in recent years, including the hard-fought presidential election in April that helped tighten Fico's grip on power.
"I ask all to stop piling attacks, expressions of hate, on social networks, in the media, which are aimed at that or another political camp, regardless if it concerns the coalition or the opposition," Sutaj Estok said.
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