President Tebboune back in Algeria after his hospitalization in Germany
The operation at the foot of President Tebboune on January 20 was “a success” according to the Algerian presidency (illustrative image).
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The 75-year-old head of state returned to his country on Friday February 12, after a month of hospitalization in Germany.
According to the authorities, he underwent a foot operation there, following post-Covid complications.
He had already spent two months in the same country at the end of 2020 after being affected by the coronavirus.
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It is an Abdelmadjid Tebboune without a mask who landed at the Boufarik military airport, west of Algiers.
According to the images of the public television station TVA3, he was welcomed there by several senior officials, including Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, the presidents of the assemblies and the chief of staff Saïd Chanegriha.
Left for Germany at the end of October after contracting the coronavirus, according to the authorities, he had only returned for
ten days at the end of December-beginning of January
, before returning to Berlin for the rest of his "
therapeutic protocol
".
His foot operation on January 20 was “
a success
” according to the presidency, and he thanked his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier by telephone on Thursday for the quality of care received.
This prolonged medical stay has sparked many rumors and
questioned the stability of power
, in a country where the Hirak's breath is far from over, almost two years after the start of the movement.
On the agenda of the Head of State: a new electoral law to be passed in Parliament with a view to organizing legislative and local elections by the end of the year, a possible reshuffle, and above all a crisis acute social and economic due to the blackout in the global hydrocarbon market.
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