Tunisia denies news on Ben Ali poor health

Tunisian official sources denied a report stated by the French daily Liberation yesterday on rumors widely spread in Tunisia to that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali suffers poor health. A matter which has forced him to limit the number of his public appearances.

The paper quoted a source close to the democratic constitutional party ( the ruling party) that the Tunisian president ( 66 year old) is spending most of the time at Sedi Busaeed Palace while his work schedule "was reduced considerably."

The source added that "Ben Ali suffers prostate cancer and that he has been treated by German doctors while his special doctors lives at the palace."