He's walking in Gandhi's footsteps...

He wants to be a voice for the voiceless. If he is elected to the French Presidency, this will give Americans one more reason to hate the French.

He's walking in Gandhi's footsteps in his own way. There isn't any personal ambition about him. Champion of the oppressed takes on greatest challenge - the French presidency

Angelique Chrisafis
Friday February 2, 2007
The Guardian

He is the walrus-moustached farmer whose fight against McDonald's and globalisation saw him hailed as a modern-day Asterix leading the Gauls. But José Bové yesterday left his sheep farm in southern France, strolled into a labour exchange in a rundown north Paris suburb, took a draw on his trademark pipe and announced he was running for president.

The self-styled country bumpkin who rose to stardom in 1999 for dismantling a half-built McDonald's in the fight against "crap food" is now coming to the rescue of the riot-hit concrete jungles of France's urban housing estates. "I will be the spokesman of the voiceless," he announced yesterday.

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