CCTV9英语新闻：French candidate Fillon faces backlash over fake job scandal（在线收听）

French Presidential candidate Francois Fillion is facing intense backlash over a scandal involving his wife. She's accused of accepting hundreds of thousand of euros in state money for work she may have never done. The incident has helped independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, surge in the polls.

French presidential election candidate Francois Fillon delivers a speech during a political rally in Paris, France, Jan. 29, 2017. (Xinhua/Thierry Mahe)

Most pendents here in France have given up Francois Fillion's presidential campaign for dead. They were expecting him to withdraw from the race because of the allegations that he paid his wife Penelope over a million US dollars for work that there were no real evidence that she did... But with another three months to go before the country actually goes to the polls in what has been one of the most unpredictable campaigns in decades, anything could still happen.