Dublin, 16 feb (EFE).-the Reverend Ian Paisley, former Chief Minister of the North Ireland, today left the intensive care unit of the hospital in Belfast where is entered for twelve days after suffering heart problems.
According to the BBC, a source close to the family said today that the historic Protestant leader, 85 years, is making “strong progress”.
Said in a statement issued by his wife Eileen to the next day of his hospital admission called “respect the privacy of the family in these difficult times”.
Afterwards, the Irish Chief Minister, the unionist Peter Robinson, and his Deputy in the Government of power-sharing, the Republican Martin McGuinness, asked for that he is “it rezase” by his health, which foreshadowed the gravity of the situation.
The health of the Protestant leader had weakened since in February 2011 to put a pacemaker.
However, had started working recently in his autobiography, after last month definitely abandon the exercise of the Ministry in the Presbyterian free church.
Leader of the majority party Democratic Unionist (DUP) for almost 40 years, Paisley left the post of Irish Chief Minister in the Executive branch of power-sharing with Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the now inactive Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 2008.
However, remained linked to politics from his post of Deputy in the Parliament of London, charge left after the British general election of May 2010. EFE
