Slovakia’s prime minister again after assassination – lashed out on the opposition and the press

59-year-old Fico was hit by a number of photographs through the assassination, together with within the abdomen.

The accidents had been described as life-threatening, and the identical day he underwent a five-hour operation. Just a few days later he needed to go on the working desk once more.

On Wednesday, he shared a video on Fb wherein he says he forgives the 71-year-old poet and the safety guard who shot him. The perpetrator’s motive remains to be not clear, however it’s believed to have been political.

– It’s time to take step one, and that’s forgiveness. I do not really feel any hatred in the direction of the stranger who shot me, he says within the video.

Fico additionally says that he hopes to have the ability to partially resume his work as prime minister by the top of June.

Longing out for the opposition

Moreover, Fico says that the perpetrator just isn’t “a random madman”, however “a messenger of the evil and political hatred” that’s rising due to the Slovak opposition.

He spends many of the 14-minute video defending his personal positions and making a number of accusations towards his political opponents and the press.

– The opposition was unable to see the place their aggressive and hateful politics had led a bit of society, and it was solely a matter of time earlier than a tragedy would happen, says Fico.

– If it continues as it’s now, the horror from 15 Might will proceed, and there might be extra victims, he provides.

Extra controversies

Fico, who was additionally prime minister between 2006 and 2010 and from 2012 to 2018, has, since he was elected for the third time in October, provide you with a number of schemes which have soured relations with neighboring Ukraine.

He has questioned the nation’s sovereignty and advocated compromises with Russia. After the election victory, Slovakia has additionally stopped sending weapons to Ukraine.

There have been mass demonstrations towards a number of of the Fico authorities’s adjustments, together with a media legislation that critics consider will undermine the independence of the nation’s broadcasters.