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Five years ago it was a sex scandal, this time it's generous public salaries to family members that could well bring down the frontrunner in France's presidential race. A week after the story broke, French weekly Le Canard Enchainé revised upwards the sums paid to the wife and two of the children of Conservative primary winner François Fillon. Whether he can hang on after a week of dismal damage control efforts is the pressing question.
This week the France 24 Debate heads to Bonnelle, a village 45km from Paris that sits astride the two sides for France which seem to be going head to head in the 2017 Presidential Election. On one side, the France of the cities and urban areas who are fully integrated in the globalized economy. On the other the rural France that feels left behind and isolated. Sunday’s election between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will determine which of these Frances makes their voice heard.
Today in The World This Week, our panel of international journalists look at the French presidential race between far right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump’s 100 day milestone, and the Papal visit to Egypt.
It was a spectacle unseen in previous French presidential races. Lively exchanges but no knockout punches in a five-way candidates’ debate. The over three hour long event served up five different visions of France, but did it set the tone for the homestretch of this campaign. What are the issues that will decide an election that the whole world is watching?
Has France's faltering frontrunner cleared the air, or will the steady drip of scandal continue? Conservative primary nominee François Fillon apologised for misreading the nation's mood, but insisted he did nothing illegal or wrong when he put wife and children on his parliamentary payroll. With just 75 days until the first round of voting and rising serious completion from both the left, center and far-right, Fillon claims that there’s no other Plan B but him. Will his explanation fly?
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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