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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