Algerian president in France for ‘periodic medical care’
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has returned to a clinic in France for a routine checkup.
The president’s office said that Bouteflika, 79, travelled on Monday to a clinic in Grenoble, where he was treated nearly a year ago, for “periodic medical care.”
Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013 that has left him wheelchair-bound. His five-day stay in a Geneva clinic in April fed rumours about a new health setback.
He spent time in a Grenoble clinic, in southeast France, last December.
Bouteflika took office in 1999 and has been re-elected three times, with the constitution modified to do away with a limit on presidential mandates.
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