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|birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland |death_date = |death_place = |party = Democratic Unionist Party |spouse = Iris Collins |children = Jonathan Gareth Rebekah |alma_mater = Castlereagh College |religion = Pentecostal |website = (Official website ) }} Peter David Robinson (born 29 December 1948) is a politician from Northern Ireland who is First Minister of Northern Ireland, and is the current leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He has been actively involved in politics since 1970 when he became a founding member of the DUP along with Ian Paisley. Robinson served as Paisley's Parliamentary Assistant at Westminster prior to assuming the role of General Secretary of the DUP in 1975, a position which he held until 1979 and which afforded him the opportunity to exert unprecedented influence within the fledgling Ulster loyalist party. In 1977, Robinson was elected as a councillor for the Castlereagh Borough Council in Dundonald, and in 1979, he became the youngest-serving Member of Parliament (MP) when he was narrowly elected for Belfast East. He held this seat until his defeat by Naomi Long in 2010, making him the longest-serving Belfast MP since the 1800 Act of Union. In 1980, Robinson was elected as the deputy leader of the DUP. In 1986, he helped establish Ulster Resistance, a loyalist paramilitary group. Following the re-establishment of devolved government in Northern Ireland as a result of the Good Friday Agreement, Robinson was elected in 1998 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East. Robinson subsequently served as Minister for Regional Development and Minister for Finance and Personnel in the Northern Ireland Executive. Robinson was elected unopposed to succeed Ian Paisley as leader of the DUP on 15 April 2008, and was subsequently confirmed as First Minister of Northern Ireland on 5 June 2008. In January 2010, following a scandal involving his wife Iris and raising allegations regarding their financial affairs, Robinson temporarily handed over his duties as First Minister to Arlene Foster under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 2006. Following a police investigation, which recommended that Robinson should not be prosecuted following allegations made by the BBC in relation to the scandal, he resumed his duties as First Minister. Again in September 2015 he stood aside to allow Arlene Foster to become acting First Minister after his bid to adjourn the assembly was rejected. Robinson resumed his duties on 20 October 2015. On 19 November 2015, it was announced that he would be stepping down as First Minister and as leader of the DUP within weeks. ==Background== Peter David Robinson was born on 29 December 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of Sheila and David McCrea Robinson. Robinson was educated at Annadale Grammar School, now Wellington College Belfast in Belfast, and studied English and Mathematics at Castlereagh College, now part of the Belfast Metropolitan College. Although Robinson's family had no background in unionist politics, he developed an interest in the politics of Northern Ireland as a teenager. This resulted in the publication of various political pamphlets, including ''The North Answers Back'', which drew the young aspiring politician to the attention of Ian Paisley. Robinson initially gained employment as an estate agent for Alex Murdoch & Deane in Belfast but decided to accept a decrease in salary to become the DUP's first general secretary in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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