France’s Fillon Under Growing Pressure to Drop Presidential Bid

Pressure on French presidential candidate Francois Fillon to pull out of the election grew Thursday as some lawmakers in his own camp urged him to abandon his bid in the face of a scandal in hopes of saving the conservatives from defeat. The scandal, which surfaced a week ago when a newspaper said the wife of the 62-year-old ex-prime minister, Penelope, had been paid about 600,000 euros ($647,580) for work she may not have done, has throw Fillon’s campaign off track. “I think our...

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