03-02-2017 19:14 via news.yahoo.com

France's Fillon would not make runoff vote in coming elections, poll shows

French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon, embroiled in a scandal over money paid to his wife, will not make it into a runoff vote for the presidency in May, a poll of voting intentions showed on Friday. The poll by Ifop Fiducial showed the 62-year-old former prime minister dropping into third place behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent Emmanuel Macron in an initial round of voting on April 23. Macron would go on to beat Le Pen in the May 7 round, taking 63 perce
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