Macron seeks review of fraud case against ex-rival Fillon | The Malaysian Insight

President Emmanuel Macron and Francois Fillon during a debate in March 2017. Macron has asked France's judicial watchdog, the Supreme Judiciary Council, to investigate claims of judicial interference in Fillon's case. – EPA pic, June 20, 2020.

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron has called for a probe into claims that prosecutors were pressured to move fast in a fraud inquiry against Francois Fillon, a former prime minister and his main rightwing rival in France’s 2017 presidential race. Fillon lost what many considered a certain victory after a newspaper report claimed that he orchestrated a fake parliamentary assistant job for his wife that saw her paid hundreds of thousands of euros in public funds.

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