Fillon told about the plans “in the coming days” to assemble a new team
The candidate in presidents of France from the party “the Republicans” Francois Fillon told about the plans “in the coming days” to create a new team to unite its supporters. He declared it on air of TV channel Farance 2.
It clarifies the newspaper Ouest-France, the former Prime Minister announced his disappointment that many of his “political friends” and team members are turning away from him in connection with the investigation of law enforcement agencies in relation to policy and his wife Penelope of embezzlement of public funds and embezzlement.
“In the coming days I will introduce this [new] team and it’ll show you what I can offer for the campaign and the government”, — declared Republican.
In addition, in an interview with Fillon announced that he “sees no reason” to withdraw his candidacy from the elections, Recalling that for the presidential race, he was selected “democratically”. “No authority now to force me to withdraw my candidacy,” — said the politician.
According to Fillon, his withdrawal from the presidential race “will lead to a political impasse,” his “political family”
“I’m not autistic, I see difficulties,” — said the politician Prosecutor’s office investigation against him and his wife. “But there is one thing I have noticed is that [participate in the election of my candidacy] no alternatives,” said the Republican.
Earlier, on 5 March in Paris, held a rally supporters of Fillon. According to representatives of politics, the event was attended by 200 thousand people, while the source channel BFMTV, the police claimed about 350 thousand — 400 thousand participants of the rally.
The investigation, the persons involved which are Francois Fillon and his wife, began on 25 February. Candidate for the French presidency, the investigators accused of fraudulent employment of his wife.
She, according to law enforcement officers, from 1998 to 2002, the number of assistant Fillon in Parliament, however, no results of operations to detect the investigators failed. 2 and 4 March in the framework of this investigation in the Paris house policy, and in his country mansion searches were conducted.