AFP - U.S. President Barack Obama announced Monday his candidacy for a second term of four years as head of the United States during the 2012 presidential election, calling on his supporters to take action to "protect the progress made".
"Today we are filing papers to launch our campaign 2012," saidObama in a statement.
Ensuring that its administration and its supporters "fight to protect this progress, achieve and benefit", he stressed that "we must also begin to mobilize ourselves for 2012, well before the time comes for me to launch myself really in the campaign. "
"I will need you to develop our plan and create a campaign that goes further, more focused and more innovative than anything we've built so far," Mr.Obama, whose campaign for the 2008 election was regarded as particularly innovative, relying particularly on the Internet and social networks to mobilize many volunteers.
"This will be my last campaign, at least as a candidate," he continues, the U.S. Constitution limiting to two the number of presidential terms. "But the goal of leaving a lasting legacy for our families, our communities and our country, never concerned that a single person.And it only works if we work together. "
Dissemination of the text was preceded by that of a first video campaign with supporters of the president discussing the importance of seeing him continue the work undertaken since the beginning of his term and ending on the date 2012 with the below address barackobama.com.
Barack Obama, 49, was elected at the presidential in November 2008 and took office in January 2009, becoming the first black president of the United States.
The formal announcement of candidacy will notably allow his campaign team, which will be based in his political stronghold of Chicago (north), to begin to raise funds for the next election.
