French Campaigners Want Barack Obama as Their Next President

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.