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		</div><p>Francois Fillon&#8217;s campaign for the French presidency faces new uncertainty after he abruptly cancelled a campaign stop at the country&#8217;s premier farm fair and an investigation intensified into alleged fake parliamentary jobs for his family.</p>
<p>Mr Fillon&#8217;s campaign team gave no reason for the sudden cancellation of Wednesday&#8217;s appearance at the Salon d&#8217;Agriculture, but said he is expected to speak at his campaign headquarters at midday.</p>
<p>Financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette denied reports that Mr Fillon&#8217;s wife Penelope, from Abergavenny in Wales, was taken in for questioning on Wednesday in the jobs investigation.</p>
<p>She would not comment on reports that the Fillons received a summons on Wednesday for questioning later this month.</p>
<p>Mr Fillon was once the front-runner in the race for the April-May two-round election but his poll ratings have slid amid the investigation, which he calls an unfounded smear campaign.</p>
<p>The financial prosecutor&#8217;s office pushed the case to a higher level on Friday, paving the way for possible charges against Mr Fillon.</p>
<p>Mr Fillon initially said he would withdraw from the race if he was charged but later said he was determined to let the voters decide his fate.</p>
<p>His conservative Republicans party has no clear Plan B for his possible pullout.<br />
The runner-up in the party&#8217;s first-ever primary, the more centre-leaning Alain Juppe, has said he would not want to run in Mr Fillon&#8217;s place.</p>
<p>Mr Fillon has also held talks in recent weeks with former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who came third in the conservative primary.</p>
<p>After a preliminary investigation opened on January 25, the financial prosecutor&#8217;s office decided on Friday to launch a formal judicial inquiry, turning it over to investigating judges who can bring charges or throw the case out.</p>
<p>No-one has been named in the judicial investigation on a list of charges, including misappropriation of public funds, abuse of public funds and influence trafficking.</p>
<p>Investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported that payments were made to Mrs Fillon and two of the couple&#8217;s five children that totalled more than one million euro (£850,000) over many years.</p>
<p>Campaign staffers and members of his Republicans party were at the fair waiting for Mr Fillon when the last-minute cancellation was announced.</p>
<figure id="attachment_99521" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-99521" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1479047462-b33d6cd8c984c51362b90888dcf9646c-1038x576.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1479047462-b33d6cd8c984c51362b90888dcf9646c-1038x576.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="333" class="size-full wp-image-99521" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-99521" class="wp-caption-text">French National Front Leader Marine Le Pen</figcaption></figure>
<p>Protesters have been at Mr Fillon&#8217;s recent campaign events for the election, in which far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is expected to make a strong showing.</p>
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