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Former French prime minister and wife Penelope given jail sentences over fake jobs scandal
The former French prime minister François Fillon and his Welsh wife, Penelope, were sentenced to jail on Monday for embezzling public funds as part of a “fake jobs” scandal.
A court found the couple guilty of fraud after a trial heard he had paid her and two of the couple’s children about €1m for non-existent jobs as his parliamentary assistants.
Former French presidential candidate accused of misusing more than €1m to employ wife in allegedly non-existent role
The former French presidential hopeful François Fillon will stand trial for embezzlement in the aftermath of a “fake jobs” scandal that destroyed his political career.
Fillon, 65, who was on track to lead France in 2017, will appear in court with his Welsh-born wife, Penelope.
A political novice who has never before stood for elected office is facing off against a far-right nationalist from the fringes of French politics -- it's safe to say France's presidential election is one for the history books. Voters collectively turned up their noses at the political establishment Sunday, in the first round of the French presidential election.
Although one would prefer both that Le Pen didn't make the runoff and that his opponent was better, this could have been a lot worse: Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and center-left candidate Emmanuel Macron have come out on top in the first round of the French presidential elections and will be moving ahead to the final round on May 7. According to French polling firm IPSOS, exit polls show Macron with 23.7 percent followed by Le Pen with 21.7 percent of the vote. Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and conservative candidate Francois Fillon tied for third place with about 19.5 percent each.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and liberal Emmanuel Macron will face each other in a runoff after securing the most votes in the first-round of the French presidential election on Saturday. The results set up a duel between a young candidate with no electoral experience and the woman who has worked to repair the image of a party marred by racism and anti-Semitism.
Candidates for the 2017 presidential election Francois Fillon, former French Prime Minister, member of the Republicans and candidate of the French centre-right, Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, Jean-Luc Melenchon of the French far left Parti de Gauche, Marine Le Pen, French National Front political party leader and Benoit Hamon of the French Socialist party pose before a debate organised by French private TV channel TF1 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, France, March 20, 2017.
In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, French President Francois Hollande, left ,talks with Francois Fillon, the conservative candidate for the French presidential elections, during the annual dinner of the Representative Council of France's Jewish Associations in Paris. Hollande is vigorously denouncing suggestions by conservative presidential hopeful Fillon that Hollande has a "cabinet noir" to discredit political rivals.
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Some call him the French Obama, even the French Kevin Rudd. Emmanuel Macron, the independent running for the French presidency and polling well, is likely to become increasingly visible and viable.
A leader of the Russian opposition who has been a vocal critic of what he calls a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said Monday. The diagnosis of what ailed Vladimir Kara-Murza came at a delicate political moment for the United States and Russia, as President Donald Trump had just brushed aside criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "killer."
The Midge: two-thirds of Scots want to keep pound after independence; FM Nicola Sturgeon to Dublin for two-day visit; calls for reform of Evel voting rules Hello and welcome to The Midge, the e-bulletin that takes a bite out of politics in Scotland and elsewhere. Former French PM Francois Fillon wins conservative nomination for presidency a Government facing fresh legal challenge over European Economic Area membership a May hosts summit with Polish PM in Downing Street a Fighting continuing in Aleppo a UN investigator arrives in Turkey following torture allegations a Record number take their own lives in prisons in England and Wales a New leader of Ukip revealed today a Ed Balls out of Strictly.
German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with U.S. president Barack Obama at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday June 8, 2015 during the G-7 summit. Nicolas Sarkozy has dropped out of the race to be next French president.
The race to become the conservative candidate for the French presidency and likely favourite to win the presidential election itself next year looked tighter than it has for months on Friday with voting due to start in less than 48 hours. Ahead of Sunday's vote - which will put two people forward to a run-off second round a week later - centrist ex-prime minister Alain Juppe was holding onto a shrinking lead.
Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was seen as the winner of a final debate with rival Alain Juppe before a vote on Sunday to determine the conservatives' candidate for next year's presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. The winner of Sunday's conservative primaries' vote will have a good chance of being elected president in May, considering the divisions on the left and opinion polls showing a majority of voters opposed to seeing the far-right in power.