Northern League founder
Umberto Bossi is getting gradually better after a fit last
Thursday and is interacting with relatives at a Varese hospital,
sources said Tuesday.
Bossi, 77, is "in continual improvement" and "is interacting
with relatives and doctors," the hospital management said.
Tubes have been removed from the veteran politician, the
management said.
The Northern League founder regained consciousness on Monday
after the convulsive attack in his home near Varese on Thursday.
Bossi 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 suffered a stroke in March 2004 which seriously
impaired his speech. He endured a long rehabilitation and was
out of frontline politics for two years.
In December 1991 Bossi had been struck by a mild myocardial
ischemia.
He was Northern League leader from its foundation in 1990
until 2012.
His Northern League has dropped the 'Northern' part of its
name as it has successfully reached out beyond its former
northern heartlands 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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