fillon races to the front in french rightwing primary
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Fillon races to the front in French rightwing primary

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Candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party primaries ahead of the 2017 presidential election and former French prime minister, Francois Fillon reacts at his campaign headquarters after finishing first of the first round of the rightwing presidential primary
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The surprise winner of the first round of France’s rightwing presidential primary, conservative ex-premier Francois Fillon, was the runaway favorite Monday to win the contest expected to decide France’s next leader.
Fillon, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher who has pledged deep economic reforms, pulled off a stunning upset Sunday, surging from behind to knock his former boss Nicolas Sarkozy out of the race and beat the longtime favorite, Alain Juppe, into distant second.
Fillon and Juppe, also a former prime minister, will go head-to-head in a run-off on Sunday, with the winner expected to meet far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election in May.
As Fillon faced immediate attacks from the left as “an ultra-conservative,” former center-right Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin also warned that his program of cuts was “unworkable.”
“There is no chance of implementing reforms through brute force,” Raffarin, an ally of Juppe, told BFM television on Monday morning.
Polls show Le Pen being beaten at the final hurdle but her rivals have warned that all bets are off in a country where anti-elite sentiment that propelled Donald Trump to the White House is also running high.
Sarkozy’s defeat at the hands of his former Premier Fillon, a man he once nicknamed “Mr Nobody,” marked what appeared to be an ignominious end to the ex-president’s forty years in politics.
His hard-right campaign and failure to enact many of his promises when in power from 2007-2012 repelled many voters in his camp.
Conceding defeat for the second time in four years, an unusually humble Sarkozy said it had not been easy for his family to live with a man who “arouses so many strong feelings.”
“It is time for me to begin a life with less public and more private passions,” he said, endorsing Fillon in the second round.
Fillon, a car-racing enthusiast who was premier throughout Sarkozy’s 2007-2012 presidency, emerged as a compromise choice between Sarkozy and Juppe, whose reform agenda is seen by many conservatives as too timid.
Voters appear to have been won over by Fillon’s assured performances in the pre-vote television debates, preferring him to the brashness of 61-year-old Sarkozy or the technocratic, consensus-driven image of 71-year-old Juppe.
The 62-year-old told his ecstatic camp that his program was one of “hope” and “strong change” after five years of Socialist rule.

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