Independent MP Helen Haines’s condition has been downgraded to serious but stable after she lost both legs following an alleged attack near her electorate office in north-east Victoria on Monday afternoon.

The Alfred hospital in Melbourne provided an update on Haines’s condition on Saturday morning.

“The patient is in a serious but stable condition at The Alfred on Saturday morning,” a spokesperson for the hospital said.

Haines, the federal MP for the Victorian seat of Indi, had been in a critical but stable condition after she was struck by a car in Wangaratta on Monday afternoon.…