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		</div><p>Leaders of the French conservative party have tightened ranks behind their struggling presidential candidate Francois Fillon, and given up on pushing him out.</p>
<p>Speaking after an urgent meeting of The Republicans party&#8217;s leaders, Senate Speaker Gerard Larcher said the party&#8217;s political committee &#8220;unanimously renewed its support for Francois Fillon&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Republicans are therefore gathered and determined around Francois Fillon,&#8221; Larcher told reporters.</p>
<p>After the same meeting, Bernard Accoyer, the party&#8217;s secretary general, said The Republicans are behind their candidate &#8220;with a new impulse&#8221; and that they &#8220;are ready again to go into battle and have relaunched the campaign&#8221;.</p>
<p>Fillon, a former prime minister and once the front-runner in France&#8217;s two-round April-May presidential election, has lost the support of a part of the voters, with recent polls repeatedly suggesting that he would be eliminated from the race in the first round.</p>
<p>Fillon has been summoned to appear before judges next week for allegedly using taxpayers&#8217; money to pay family members for jobs that they may not have performed. He may be given preliminary charges in the case.</p>
<p>Many conservative lawmakers have called on ex-prime minister Alain Juppe to run in Mr Fillon&#8217;s place.<br />
Mr Juppe ruled himself out as a candidate on Monday.</p>
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