Nearly two months ago, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico narrowly escaped death when he was shot by a man after a cabinet meeting. Now the left-wing populist politician has returned to work and “apologized” for it.
“Dear progressive, liberal media and opposition, I apologize for surviving, but I’m back,” Fico wrote in a post on his Facebook page on Tuesday, also posting a photo of himself in his office (see below).
Slovak media reported that Fico entered the cabinet meeting through a tunnel on Tuesday to avoid journalists. The 59-year-old head of government was shot on May 15 after a cabinet meeting in the small town of Handlova by a man identified by the media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula. He justified his act with hatred towards Fico and the government and used formulations similar to those of the liberal opposition. The 71-year-old is in custody. The act is being treated as a “particularly serious terrorist crime.”
Walks with crutches and has lost a lot of weight
After two long operations, Fico was released from hospital in late May and appeared in public for the first time last Friday. He walked with the aid of a crutch and had visibly lost weight (see photo above). At a ceremony near the capital Bratislava, Fico praised his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán for his controversial trip to Moscow. He said he would have liked to accompany him if his health had allowed it.
Despite widespread criticism from the EU and Ukraine, Orbán met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks on the war in Ukraine, days after his country took over the EU Council presidency.
Source: Krone
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