French polls pile pressure on scandal-hit Fillon

Seven out of 10 French voters want conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon to step down, an opinion poll showed on Friday, as the scandal over alleged "fake work" by his wife continued to blight his campaign. Among rightwing voters, 53 percent want him replaced, the poll by Odoxa for France Info radio showed. Fillon has apologized to the French people over the way hundreds of thousands of euros in taxpayers' money were paid to his wife over many years, but has said the work she did w