Fillon maintains support center-right

paris - One appeared Tuesday that the scandal-plagued center-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon are faithful had lost, but the parliamentary group supports him. Fillons spokesman said that all parliamentarians of the party Lesson Républicains (LR) stand fully behind Fillon.

'No one in our political family wants something different than any other government,' the spokesman said. Earlier on Tuesday, it was reported that a group of Conservative MPs were busy investing crisis talks to discuss either they had to continue with Fillon. In April and May presidential elections.

The 62-year-old former prime minister Fillon was considered a man of good character, honest, experienced and realistic. He was elected with a surprising majority in November to LR-presidential candidate and appeared to have later become president most likely. But then published a satirical weekly reports that Fillon years as an MEP had paid his wife as assistant.

Fillon maintains that it cooperated wife and he has broken no law. He considers the publications as a slanderous campaign to eliminate EAA. He does not retreat, but in opinion polls, he sinks further and further away.