5 March 2017, 04:09 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The embattled conservative candidate was also reportedly going to skip France 2’s Sunday evening show, but his aide, Anne Meaux, said Fillon would attend, as cited by the BFMTV channel.
"Francois Fillon officially annuls his appearance tomorrow on Europe 1’s morning show," Thomas Sotto, the show’s host, said on social media networks Sunday.
Fillon, the candidate of The Republicans party and once the favorite to win the election, saw his rating slump after a French tabloid claimed he had paid huge sums of money for years to his wife and children for assistant jobs they did not do.
Fillon confirmed receiving a summons for judicial questioning on Wednesday after initially threatening to quit the race if the inquiry is not dropped. He rejected allegations of corruption and described them as a political assassination.
