For the primary time since being wounded in an assassination try in mid-Could, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico launched a public assertion within the type of a brief, 40-second video.
Within the speech, Fico addressed his assailant, who was allegedly motivated by Fico’s opposition to help to Ukraine. Fico mentioned he has forgiven his killer and “won’t take any lively authorized motion in opposition to him or search compensation for damages.” Fico added that he needed the assailant to “know what he did and why in his personal head.”
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Fico laid the blame solely on the toes of Slovakia’s opposition, saying that the killers have been “solely the messengers of vicious and political malice which has developed to uncontrollable proportions in a politically failed and depressed opposition Slovakia.”
The one ballot printed because the assassination try reveals Fico’s social-democratic Small Occasion main with 24.4 %. This might be a rise from the 22.95 % obtained within the 2023 parliamentary elections, which returned Fico to energy. This represented an enchancment in polling for Fico, who beforehand polled between 21 and 22 %.
European Parliament elections are held in Slovakia on June 8 and Fico’s celebration appears to be like set to win 4 of the 15 seats, an enchancment of 1 on the 2019 consequence.
