This is the moment a 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron kissed his 40-year-old teacher - two years before he declared he wanted to marry her.

(RELATED: Italian Governor Gives Bear Death Penalty After Father And Son Attacked). The scandal, revealed by the French press just three months before the country’s 2017 presidential election, cost her husband, ex-Prime Minister Francois Fillon, his reputation. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Francois Fillon, 65, claimed Penelope was his parliamentary assistant for 15 years, despite her never visiting the Paris National Assembly.
Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Heat's Rich List 2020: Jodie Comer is named for the first time after earning £4.9m while Ed Sheeran RETAINS his crown as the richest British star under 30. . Fillon was eliminated from the race after finishing third in the first round, behind Macron and far-right leader Marine le Pen. France's former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, right, and his wife Penelope, left, leave the Paris courthouse, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Over the years, she was offered different types of contracts as a parliamentary assistant, depending on her husband’s political career. GOT a story? FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was just 15 years old when he met his wife, Brigitte Trogneux, who is 25 years his senior. According to France's Interior Ministry, 46 million people voted in the first stage of the elections which knocked the traditional Right and Left parties out of the running for the first time in 60 years. Speaking with a barely audible voice, she often remained vague and hesitant in her answers. A former lawmaker, Marc Joulaud, also goes on trial for misuse of public funds after he allegedly gave her a fake job as an aide from 2002 to 2007, while her husband was minister. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan tacked on 0.3 percent, while Japan's Nikkei jumped 1.4 percent as the yen retreated. . 'Emmanuel is not a patriot. At 39, Emmanuel Macron is hotly tipped to become the youngest ever president of France. How long before it happens in Britain? Fillon’s wife and children were paid more than $1.13 million since 1998. He took 19.91 percent of Sunday's vote. Nearly 47 million people were eligible to vote in the eurozone's second biggest economy and turnout was high at more than 78 percent. Though Le Pen came in behind Macron, there was joy at the FN's election party Sunday night in Henin-Beaumont, a former coal mining town in northern France, with outbursts of the Marseillaise national anthem.

Fillon now works for an asset management company. He rapidly climbed the career ladder, earning millions, before becoming an economic advisor to Francois Hollande's presidency in 2012 and then economy minister two years later. He got 19.64 percent of the vote, underlining the strength of anti-establishment sentiment. Despite Macron's plans to 'relaunch the building of Europe', the combined scores of staunch eurosceptics Le Pen, far-left Jean-Luc Melenchon and nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan add up to around 46 percent. 'If you're told I lead a double life with Mr Gallet it's because my hologram has escaped,' he said, in a reference to a rival candidate making an earlier appearance as a hologram. All rights reserved. Fillon and Joulaud both had other parliamentary assistants. Trump's campaign website is briefly 'seized' by hackers who claim to have evidence that 'proves his criminal... Trump claims early voters want to 'change their vote to me' in wake of his second debate with Biden and... Joe Biden calls Donald Trump a 'conman' who has capitulated to the pandemic in campaign speech in Georgia,... Melania slams 'socialist' Biden in full-on Dem attack as she hits campaign trail solo in Pennsylvania - and... Are these the women who will REALLY rule Joe Biden's White House? PARIS (AP) — For over three decades, Penelope Fillon was the very discreet wife of a prominent politician who became…. ('On the move').

Macron 'will have my vote,' he said, adding that his victory was essential to the future of France and Europe. Prosecutors lashed out at what they called “fraudulent, systematic practices.” They requested five years in prison, including a three-year suspended sentence, and a 375,000 euro ($417,870) fine against Francois Fillon, and a three-year suspended sentence and the same fine against his wife. Le Pen Senior went on to suffer a stinging defeat when mainstream parties closed ranks to keep him out. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, at the Victoria Airport in 2016. Fillon served as prime minister under president Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012. Political rivals had alleged he was backed by a 'gay lobby'. Fillon’s wife and children were paid more than $1.13 million since 1998. By Ryan Biek May 8, 2017. The magazine owner, Marc de Lacharriere, already pleaded guilty and was given a suspended eight-month prison sentence and fined 375,000 euros in 2018. Welsh-born Penelope Fillon has always kept a low profile. The pair met when Mrs Trogneux, then married with three children, was his French and drama teacher at his high school in Amiens, northern France.

Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte embrace as it emerged he has advanced to the run-off against Marine Le Pen. He continued his presidential campaign despite the judicial investigation, but his image as an earnest and honest politician with a strong focus on family values, was seriously damaged. The couple has been ordered to reimburse the National Assembly more than 1 million euros to pay back the money that was taken. In addition, charges also cover a contract that allowed Penelope Fillon to earn 135.000 euros in 2012-2013 as a consultant for a literary magazine owned by a friend of her husband — also an alleged fake job. AN ex-prime minister of France got a prison term yesterday for using public funds to pay his British wife £1million for work she never did. His wife, 64, got a three-year suspended term. Fillon, PM from 2007 to 2012, was jailed for five years, three suspended. But it was quickly suspended until Wednesday following a request from all lawyers who wished to display their solidarity with colleagues striking over President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform. Prosecutors said her wages — up to nine times France’s minimum salary — appeared to depend on the available financing from the National Assembly rather than the nature of her work. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Once the front-runner, Fillon sunk to third place in the presidential race won by Emmanuel Macron.

'That would show a country deeply divided and we must remain on guard - We must not claim victory yet, we must fight against the false claims of the FN,' he said.
“I am the one deciding of the aides’ wages,” Fillon said. France's former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, right, and his wife Penelope, left, leave the Paris courthouse, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. During the campaign, a lot of focus has fallen on his relationship with wife Brigitte Trogneux, who at 64 is 25 years his senior.