Investigators suspect that Fillon, 65, hired his Welsh-born wife Penelope as his parliamentary assistant between 1998 and 2013, without having her do any actual work.
Fillon has denied the allegations and insisted that Penelope -- who faces charges including complicity in misuse of public funds -- did real work for him in his rural constituency of Sarthe.They have also seized on a 2016 newspaper interview in which Penelope declares that"Until now, I have never got involved in my husband's political life" -- echoing a statement she made to Britain's Sunday Telegraph in 2007.
Fillon's lawyers said last week they will seek to delay the opening of the trial, set to run until March 11, in solidarity with lawyers opposing Macron's pension reform, which would replace their own, more beneficial regime.Fillon has already ruled out any return to politics, saying in a prime-time TV interview last month that his priority is to defend his family's honour.
In addition to the parliamentary jobs, Fillon has been charged over payments to Penelope from a magazine owned by a billionaire friend of his, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere. "There have been a lot of scandals in French political life, but in general they had to do with party financing," political historian Jean Garrigues told AFP, citing as an example the 2011 corruption conviction of former president Jacques Chirac.
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