A burqa-wearing Frenchwoman has declared her intention to run for the presidency against Nicolas Sarkozy.
Kenza Drider styles herself the Freedom Candidate.
Her campaign literature shows her in her full veil standing in front of a line of police – an act made illegal by French legislation banning the burqa in public in April.
September 25th, 2011 at 6:10PM
In order to run for presidency in France, you have to collect a number of endorsements from locally elected officials. There’s no chance she’ll get any, or at best more than a handful. Her claim is therefore as meaningless as if I declared that I was running for president.