Paris: Posters of Barack Obama have popped up around Paris in what started as a joke by four friends pretending to launch a campaign for the former US leader ahead of France's presidential election.
Even though the former US president cannot legally run in the two-round April-May election as a foreigner, the jokesters online petition has been signed by more than 40,000 people.
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France's Macron rallies support in UK
At a packed out hall in the heart of Westminster, French Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron says Britain and Europe must not distance themselves from each other after Brexit.
The organisers, who came up with idea over beer, say they launched the website and began plastering Obama17 posters around Paris because they were disenchanted with the candidates running in France's election.
Reuters