Halldor Asgrimsson, former Icelandic PM and chairman of the Progressive Party, was taken ill with pneumonia shortly before Christmas and spent two weeks on a life support machine in a serious condition.
Visir.is reports that he is now on the road to a slow recovery and has been taken off the life support machine. He remains in the intensive care unit at Fossvogur hospital in Reykjavik.
Halldor Asgrimsson is the current Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers and was Prime Minister of Iceland from 2004 to 2006. He became PM due to a deal struck when his party agreed to enter a coalition with the Independence Party of David Oddsson. Oddsson was Prime Minister during the first half of the term. Asgrimsson was chairman of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.
