It began as a joke but now its gone viral. Four French
friends have launched a campaign aimed at getting former US President
Barack Obama to become a candidate in the forthcoming French
presidential election.
An online petition has attracted over 40,000 signatures.
Organisers, who hope to garner a million signatures by next
month, say the idea reflects their own frustration with the current
candidates.
“The idea for Obama 2017 actually came from a discussion
over a beer between friends,” said one of the campaigners. “We realised
we didn’t want to vote for anyone and especially, we were fed up after
years of voting against a candidate instead of for one president whom we
really believed in. And so, Obama arrived on the table. We laughed
about it a lot in the beginning and then we said to each other that we
had to do it for real to denounce all this and that is what we did.”
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Source: euronews.
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