Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was in a "stable" but "serious" condition, his deputy said on Wednesday, a week after he was shot four times in an assassination attempt that shook the country. 

"His condition was stable in the morning," Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak told reporters after the Slovak Security Council's extraordinary meeting on Wednesday. 

"His condition is serious, the injuries are complicated. Transportation is definitely out of the question at this time," said Kalinak, adding that the hospital in Banska Bystrica would issue a new update on Fico's health later on Wednesday. 

The suspected gunman, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula, has been charged with premeditated attempted murder and was remanded in custody following a hearing on Saturday.