French presidential candidate Francois Fillon got his wife and two of his children jobs that paid nearly one million euros (USD 1.1 million), according to new claims in the Canard Enchaine newspaper today.
The conservative candidate's wife Penelope earned 900,000 euros as a parliamentary aide and at a literary review owned by his friend, and two of his five children were employed as parliamentary assistants, earning a further 84,000 euros, the report alleged.
Fillon was the long-time frontrunner in the presidential race but his popularity has dropped since the same newspaper alleged last week that Welsh-born Penelope had earned half a million euros, but that it could find no evidence of the parliamentary work she did.
A poll published on Sunday showed that Marine Le Pen, the leader of the anti-immigration and anti-EU National Front (FN), would score highest in the first round of the election on April 23, followed by Fillon and the centrist Emmanuel Macron almost neck-and-neck.
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