RABAT (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday the government was blameless in the case of an ex-minister who lied about a secret foreign bank account, as he and top ministers faced more pressure to explain themselves.
Hollande and his finance minister spent a third day fending off criticism and accusations of a cover-up after former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac this week admitted lying about a secret 600,000-euro (509,377 pounds) foreign bank account.
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