{"id":12960,"date":"2018-08-27T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2018-08-27T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:29:58","slug":"algerias-bouteflika-in-geneva-for-periodic-medical-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12960","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Bouteflika in Geneva for &#8216;periodic medical checks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"81.0479233227\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Algerian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/algeria-president-bouteflika-army-political-game-180423114018685.html\">Abdelaziz Bouteflika<\/a> is in Geneva for a routine medical checkup, the presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span>Aged 81, the wheelchair-bound president suffered a stroke in 2013 that has limited his public appearances to a handful of largely ceremonial occasions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span lang=\"EN\">&#8220;His Excellency Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the Republic, left Algiers this Monday, August 27, 2018 to Geneva, Switzerland to perform periodic medical checks,&#8221; the statement carried by the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/algeria.html\">Algeria<\/a> Press Service said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Bouteflika has made similar trips in the past, including the<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Val-de-Grace hospital in Paris where he has sought medical attention on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Elected to office in 1999, the president&#8217;s supporters as well as executives from his National Liberation Front party have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/04\/algeria-ruling-party-asks-ailing-president-run-term-180408095314318.html\">called<\/a> on him to run for a fifth consecutive term in a presidential vote scheduled for 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>He has yet to announce whether he will run for office. \u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is in Geneva for a routine medical checkup, the presidency said in a statement. Aged 81, the wheelchair-bound president suffered a stroke in 2013 that has limited his public appearances to a handful of largely ceremonial occasions. &#8220;His Excellency Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the Republic, left Algiers this Monday, August&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}