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Petition Calls For Barack Obama To Run As French President by 9jayes(op): 7:02am On Feb 25, 2017*

If the upcoming French election wasn'ttense enough, a petition is calling to
add yet another candidate into the mix:
former U.S. President Barack Obama .
The Obama 17 campaign, which was
launched earlier this week, is
attempting to collect 1 million signatures by March 15 in order to persuade Obama to stand in the May election.
"Barack Obama has the best resume in the world for the job," the site explains. "Because at a time when France is about to vote massively for the extreme right, we can still give a lesson of democracy to the planet by
electing a French President, a
foreigner."
According to NBC, posters calling for
Obama 2017 have been plastered
around Paris and the petition has
received about 27,000 signatures so
far. One of the site's founders told NBC that he thought up the idea for the
campaign with four friends "after a
drink."
This diverse array of contenders in the
French election is likely to be
winnowed down to a head-to-head
race by the country's two-round votingsystem. Unless one candidate wins a(highly unlikely) majority in the first
round the tw candidates who receive
the most votes in round one (April 23) will face off in a second round (May 7).

source: www.time.com/4681651/barack-obama-french-election-campaign/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook

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