ALGIERS, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will submit his official application to seek re-election on March 3, his campaign manager said.
“It is Bouteflika’s right to be a candidate,” Abdelmalek Sellal told a crowd in televised comments.
Meanwhile, Bouteflika remains at a Swiss hospital, the Tribune de Geneve newspaper reported Wednesday.
Citing what it described as multiple and well-informed sources, the TdG reported that Bouteflika has been at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) since Sunday.
HUG is a public teaching hospital, but has a private wing that could accommodate VIPs seeking privacy, according to the hospital’s website.
A HUG spokesman declined to comment on the report.
Bouteflika, who uses a wheelchair and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, announced on Feb 10 that he would seek re-election in the April 18 vote.
The 81-year-old has repeatedly received medical care in Switzerland since the 1980s. — NNN-AGENCIES
