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Francois Fillon with his wife Penelope: "I did not misappropriate public money, it's a political assassination". (Photo: Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)

Fillon to be charged, will not withdraw from election

Francois Fillon, the centre-right candidate in the French presidential election, will continue to run despite being soon charged in an embezzlement case.



"I won't give up. I won't surrender. I won't withdraw," he said on Wednesday (1 March).

In a press point without questions announced just hours before it took place, Fillon said he had been summoned by judges to appear on 15 March to be charged in a case of alleged fake jobs for family members.


He is suspected of having ...

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