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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYESSSSSS !!!....Group petitions Barack Obama to run for president of France
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/27/group-petitions-barack-obama-to-run-for-president-of-france/21722686/Organizers in France are urging former U.S. President Barack Obama to run for president of their country.
The group, dubbed Obama17, put up 500 posters of Obama for French president around Paris and launched a website, hoping to garner 1 million signatures on their petition by March 15.
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YESSSSSS !!!....Group petitions Barack Obama to run for president of France (Original Post)
Rustyeye77
Feb 2017
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uff. as i keep saying, he is our pride and joy and they can't have him
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
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Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)1. Ok... Trumps America or Obama's France ???
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)2. uff. as i keep saying, he is our pride and joy and they can't have him
he's ours.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)3. Wouldn't he have to have been born there?
Koinos
(2,792 posts)4. French Constitution Is Different
The French Constitution (unlike our own) allows naturalized French citizens to run for president.
Obama would have to become a naturalized French citizen. Could be done, but not likely to happen.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)6. You beat me to it.
You are totally correct.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)5. I think he's thinking about it...but may not do it.