United States: Joe Biden "in good health", according to his doctor Kevin O'Connor

US President Joe Biden, listening to a reporter's question as he walks to his helicopter, Marine One, on the White House lawn, February 16, 2023. AP - Evan Vucci

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It was expected and even scrutinized given his activity and his projects.

The American president, who celebrated his 80th birthday last November, underwent his annual medical examinations on Thursday, February 16.

He is fine for his age.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

Guillaume Naudin

President Biden remains an 80-year-old man, but healthy and vigorous.

He is able to assume the duties of the presidency, including the functions of head of government, head of state and commander-in-chief of the armies.

That's the conclusion of Joe Biden's personal physician, at the end of a five-page memo written after the nation's most powerful man passed a battery of tests at Walter Reed Military Hospital, north from Washington.

About ten points are discussed, related to the personal medical history of Joe Biden.

And according to the report, everything is fine, everything is perfectly stabilized.

This resolutely positive health check will allow Americans not to ask questions, but rather to make a real choice, hopes the presidential entourage.

The announcement of candidacy for

the presidential election of 2024

is expected in the coming weeks.

If confirmed and re-elected, Joe Biden would be 86 at the end of his second term.

He is already the oldest president in the country's history, and both allies and adversaries are asking questions.

The last time he was told his age, Joe Biden simply replied, “ 

Look at me.

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