Story highlights Organizers hope to get 1 million people to sign a petitionIt's a joke with a serious purpose(CNN) Could France elect Barack Obama president? Not really -- but that's not stopping the organizers of Obama17, a guerrilla campaign trying to entice the former U.S. president to head to Paris. He's Barack Obama," one of the campaign organizers told CNN. They've launched a website and they put up 500 posters of Obama around Paris last weekend, said the organizer. They're hoping to get 1 million people to sign a petition urging Obama to run.

Source: CNN February 24, 2017 17:15 UTC