In France, they are collecting a million signatures so that they can have Barack Obama as their president.
French fans of former US leader Barack Obama want him to run for president of France.
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About it reports the American channel ABC News.
Throughout Paris, activists hung posters with a portrait of Obama, the words “Obama17” and a call to visit a website where you can sign a petition that would “convince Obama” to take part in the elections.
The activists' goal is to collect a million signatures.
“We can still teach this planet a lesson in democracy by electing a foreigner as president,” the site says.
A representative of the activists said that this idea came to them two months before the end of Obama's presidential term.
“We thought that whether it's possible or not, whether he's French or not, we have to actually do this, we have to give people hope,” he explained.
Let us remind you that according to the latest polls, socialist Emmanuel Macron, former Minister of Economy, wins the presidential elections in France in the first round. Other strong contenders, right-wing François Fillon and far-right Marine Le Pen, are mired in a series of scandals and allegations of corruption among their inner circle. Perhaps these accusations were successfully orchestrated, but they managed to seriously undermine the progress of the right-wing campaign.
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