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Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister Robert Fico underwent a two-hour operation on Friday that have increased hopes for his recovery, a deputy prime minister said, following an assassination attempt this week that sent shockwaves through Europe.
\nDeputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak also said any decision to transfer Fico back to the capital Bratislava from the central city of Banska Bystrica where he is being treated would only be taken when there had been further improvement in his condition.
\n\u201cIt will take several more days for us to know definitively which way it is going,\u201d Kalinak told reporters outside the Banska Bystrica hospital. \u201cI think the surgery today\u2026 will allow us to move closer to a positive prognosis.\u201d
\n\u201cI am in a better mood because I see there is progress. It is still very serious but for me hopeful.\u201d
\nMiriam Lapunikova, director of the hospital treating Fico, said he was conscious and stable in the intensive care unit after the operation, which removed dead tissue from his wounds. Fico also underwent hours of surgery on Wednesday soon after being shot five times at close range.
\nSlovak police have charged a man with attempted murder. Local news media say he is a 71-year-old former security guard at a shopping mall and the author of three collections of poetry. There has been no official confirmation of his identity.
\nPolice have conducted an hours-long search of the suspect\u2019s home in the central town of Levice with him present, according to TV Makriza. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet and carried a plastic bag and other items.
\nArmed police, also wearing bullet-proof vests, patrolled outside his home.
\nFEBRILE POLITICS<\/strong>
\nThe 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.
\nHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a political ally of Fico, told public radio on Friday that even if the Slovak leader stages a full recovery, he will not be able to work for months \u2013 and this at a critical time for the continent, which faces elections for the European Parliament in early June.
\n\u201cWe 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,\u201d Orban said.
\nFico and Orban have both criticised the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russia.
\n(Reuters)surgery. assassination attempt, recovery, political climate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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