Pressure on scandal-hit Fillon as polls point at disapproval

Seven out of 10 French voters want conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon to step down, an opinion poll by Odoxa for France Info radio said on Friday as a scandal over alleged "fake work" by his wife continued to weigh on his campaign. 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 was genuine and that he did nothing illegal. Fillon was elected to stand fo