PARIS (AFP) – Francois Fillon, the rightwing Republicans party candidate for the French presidential election, is ensnared in a corruption scandal that has been dubbed “Penelopegate”. Here is the furore explained in six key questions: – Who is Francois Fillon? – He
French conservative presidential candidate François Fillon has dropped sharply in popularity and faces elimination in the first round, a poll has found. As the former frontrunner faces an ongoing scandal regarding his family’s employment, a poll for French newspaper Les
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon not only paid his wife for an allegedly fake job as a parliamentary aide, but also employed two of the couple’s children for the same positions, a weekly newspaper is reporting. Altogether, the aide work brought Fillon’s family nearly $1 million.
French investigators seized documents in parliament on Tuesday as part of a probe into allegations that conservative presidential hopeful Francois Fillon paid his wife for a fictitious parliamentary job.
Marine Le Pen will win the first round of voting in this year’s French presidential election, a shock poll has revealed.
PARIS (AP) — French presidential candidate Francois Fillon said Thursday he would step out of the race if he were given preliminary charges by national financial prosecutors investigating an allegedly fake job held by his wife.
Paris (AFP) – The British-born wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon was paid around 500,000 euros ($538,000) over nearly a decade out of parliamentary funds, a satirical weekly reported Wednesday.
A new poll finds that populist leader Marine Le Pen now leads France’s presidential race while the incumbent Socialist Party has plummeted in popularity.
French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon tried to win over party critics at a meeting on Saturday at a time when polls show him losing some momentum due to what some say is too radical an economic reform program.
Marine Le Pen has overtaken centre-right candidate François Fillon to be the frontrunner in France’s presidential election, according to the latest poll by Ifop-Fiducial.
François Hollande denounced populism and nationalism ahead of upcoming French presidential elections, but Marine Le Pen hit back saying after Trump and Brexit, the French share the worldwide “aspiration for independence” in the fight against globalism.
PARIS (AP) — French conservatives on Sunday are choosing their nominee for next year’s vital presidential election from among two former prime ministers with deep experience in government and differing views on how to prevent more terror attacks on French soil.
France is not a multicultural country and never should be, the conservative front-runner for President has said. Speaking in the final head-to-head debate before the second round of the Republicans presidential primary, François Fillon insisted that multiculturalism was a bad
French rightwing presidential favourite Francois Fillon struck a confident tone ahead of a final televised debate Thursday with his rival for the Republicans party nomination, Alain Juppe.
The surprise winner of the first round of France’s rightwing presidential primary, conservative ex-premier Francois Fillon, was the runaway favourite Monday to win the contest expected to decide France’s next leader.
An emotional Nicolas Sarkozy dropped out of the primary to be the centre-right Les Republicain party nominee for French president today. Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe progress through to the next round in the race to decide who will likely
