Brigitte Bardot, the sixties sex symbol, has announced that she could be running for French president in the next election in 2012.

The former actress turned animal activist has been asked by France's Ecology Alliance party to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy for the country's leadership, reports the Daily Mail.

Bardot has written to Sarkozy telling him she may run against him because he 'took her for an idiot' by not keeping his manifesto promises to outlaw the traditional Muslim treatment of animals.