Slovakia PM Robert Fico remains in serious condition but prognosis ‘positive’

“His condition remains very serious, and he needs a long time to rest to recover. We firmly believe that everything will go in a good direction"

Flowers are placed outside the FD Roosevelt University Hospital, where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is being treated, in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia Picture: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico remains in a serious condition but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarised European Union nation, the defence minister said.

“The worst of what we feared has passed, at least for the moment. But his condition remains serious,” Robert Kalinak told reporters outside the hospital where Mr Fico is being treated.