BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia
Slovak doctors will meet on Monday to assess Prime Minister Robert Fico's health and discuss the possibility of transporting him from Banska Bystrica to the capital Bratislava, local media reported on Friday.
Fico remains in a serious
but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country's
President-Elect Peter Pellegrini said on Thursday, a day after an assassination
attempt that sent shock waves across Europe.
Local media reported that a
medical council would convene on Monday to assess his condition and decide
whether he could be transported from the central Slovak city of Banska Bystrica
to Bratislava. The aktuality.sk news website attributed this information to a
hospital director.
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The hospital in Banska
Bystrica did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The shooting was the first
major assassination attempt on a European political leader for more than 20
years, and has drawn international condemnation. Political analysts and
lawmakers say it has exposed an increasingly febrile and polarised political climate
both in Slovakia and across Europe.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
Orban told public radio on Friday that Fico was "between life and
death".
Orban said even if Fico recovers, he would be out of work for months at a critical time in the run-up to European Parliament elections due early next month.
"We are facing an
election that will decide not just about members of European Parliament but
along with the U.S. election can determine the course of war and peace in
Europe," Orban said.
Fico and Orban have both
criticised western weapons supplies to Ukraine.
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