Francois Fillon, former French prime minister, member of the Republicans political party and 2017 presidential election candidate of the French centre-right, delivers his speech at the Association of the Mayors of France (AMF) conference in Paris, France, March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon, under pressure over a financial scandal, accused the government on Wednesday of organising leaks of damaging judicial information against him.
Interviewed by FranceInfo radio, he said the ruling Socialist Party seized on the leaks to try to eliminate him, as the right-wing candidate, from the campaign.
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