The populist prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was in life-threatening condition Wednesday after being shot in an “attempted assassination,” his office said.

Fico’s Facebook page said in an update: “He was shot multiple times and is in a life-threatening state.”

It said that he was being taken to a hospital in the city of Banská Bystrica rather than in the capital, Bratislava, because “it would take too long considering the urgency of the matter.”

The country’s president…