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Petition going around for Obama to be 2017 President of France . over 42,000 have already sign since the petition got started about 17 hours ago/
HEADLINE: French election 2017: 'Obama for president', 42,000 supporters say
Campaign posters reading "Oui, on peut" - a translation of the former US president's popular 2008 campaign slogan, "Yes, we can" - have appeared around Paris.
HEADLINE: Barack Obama French Presidential Elections 2017 France
‘Oui on peut!’ French voters want Obama to run for president
Posters of Barack Obama have popped up around Paris in what started as a joke by four friends calling for the former US president to run for the Élysée Palace
The organisers say they began plastering Obama posters around Paris because they were disenchanted with the homegrown candidates in France’s forthcoming presidential election.