League founder Umberto Bossi
was better on Friday and has not suffered any neurological
damage, Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana said after visiting
him in hospital.
Bossi had been rushed by helicopter to the ER in Varese
Thursday. He was placed in intensive care and sedated after
fainting and banging his head at home in nearby Gemonio.
Fontana added that it seemed to have been a fit brought on
possibly by medication he was taking.
Bossi, 77, suffered a stroke in March 2004 which seriously
impaired his speech.
In December 1991 he was struck by a myocardial ischemia.
He was Northern League leader from the 1989 until 2012.
His Northern League has dropped the 'Northern' part of its
name as it has successfully reached out beyond its former
northern heartland under Bossi's successor, Deputy Premier and
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
The League is now Italy's top party according to opinion
polls.
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