Former nationalist League party
leader Roberto Maroni was discharged from a Milan neurological
hospital Tuesday after surgery last Friday after suffering a bad
turn and falling in his home and banging his head the previous
Sunday.
Former Lombardy governor, two-time interior minister, labour
minister and deputy premier Maroni, 65, had been moved from
Varese hospital, near his home at Lozza, to Milan's Besta
Hospital where he had the operation.
Doctors said after the surgery that the patient was conscious
and in good condition.
Maroni, who is currently the League candidate for mayor in
upcoming elections in Varese, is believed to have suffered
slight neurological damage which has now been repaired.
The former assistant to League founder Umberto Bossi led the
League from 2012 to 2013, before current leader Matteo Salvini
changed its name from Northern League and started a drive to
turn it into a nationwide nationalist party from a formerly
secessionist northern one.
Under the stewardship of former interior minister Salvini the
anti-migrant and Euroskeptic League has become Italy's top
party.
Salvini was deputy premier in a June 2018-September 2019
government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S),
pulling the plug and aiming for elections only to see the M5S
surprisingly team up with its old foes in the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) for a new government, which is currently
in power but facing a crisis over the COVID Recovery Plan
sparked by ex-premier Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva (IV) party.
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