Post by Soutpeel on Feb 10, 2017 14:13:15 GMT 7
Marine Le Pen set to win first round of French election as scandal-hit Fillon drops in polls
Conservative candidate and former favourite says his supporters ‘will go straight to Le Pen’ if he doesn’t get through to Round 2
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon struck back on Thursday over the scandal sapping his campaign, calling for fraud investigators to drop their inquiry into the “fake jobs” affair.
Lawyers for Fillon, once a frontrunner to win the election in May but now a third-placed
according to opinion polls, publicly denounced the financial prosecutor’s inquiry into misuse of public funds as illegal and questioned the impartiality of its investigators.
The scandal involves mainly his wife, Penelope, who a satirical weekly said received almost a million euros £850,000) for work as a parliamentary assistant and literary reviewer – work, it said, she did not properly carry out.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-election-marine-le-pen-french-francois-fillon-polls-scandal-first-round-win-a7572316.html
Conservative candidate and former favourite says his supporters ‘will go straight to Le Pen’ if he doesn’t get through to Round 2
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon struck back on Thursday over the scandal sapping his campaign, calling for fraud investigators to drop their inquiry into the “fake jobs” affair.
Lawyers for Fillon, once a frontrunner to win the election in May but now a third-placed
according to opinion polls, publicly denounced the financial prosecutor’s inquiry into misuse of public funds as illegal and questioned the impartiality of its investigators.The scandal involves mainly his wife, Penelope, who a satirical weekly said received almost a million euros £850,000) for work as a parliamentary assistant and literary reviewer – work, it said, she did not properly carry out.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-election-marine-le-pen-french-francois-fillon-polls-scandal-first-round-win-a7572316.html
