法總統候選人爲反猶太漫畫道歉
France's troubled conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon has apologized for his party's anti-Semitic tweet of rival Emmanuel Macron.
"The political battle is tough enough, but it must remain dignified," Fillon said Sunday. "I will not tolerate my party publishing caricatures that use the codes of anti-Semitic propaganda."
Fillon said he has always fought against such thinking and has asked Republican Party officials to take action against whomever was responsible.
The image tweeted Friday shows Macron with a hooked nose, a top hot, and cutting a cigar with a red sickle.
France's Vichy government which collaborated with the Nazis were notorious for using such cartoons during World War II.
Allegations of anti-Semitism is the latest of Fillon's problems.
He was once favored to win the French presidency, but now trails Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
His once thriving campaign has been damaged by a financial scandal in which he is accused of paying his wife huge sums of public money for a phony job as a parliamentary assistant. Fillon has denied wrongdoing.
The French newspaper Journal du Dimanche also reports Fillon accepted a gift of two suits from an exclusive French clothing shop which far exceeds the legal limit of donations for presidential candidates.
The first round of the election is set for April 23, followed by a runoff for the top two finishers two weeks later.法國陷入困境的保守派總統候選人菲永爲他的政黨在推特上發表反猶太人漫畫攻擊競選對手馬克龍而表示道歉。
菲永星期天說，“政治鬥爭已經夠艱難，但它必須保持尊嚴。”他說，“我不會容忍我的政黨發表的漫畫中使用反猶太主義宣傳代碼。”
菲永說，他一直反對這種想法，並已經要求共和黨官員對責任者採取行動。
星期五在推特上發表的圖片顯示，馬克龍有鷹鉤鼻，戴禮帽，用一把紅色鐮刀在切雪茄。
法國在第二次世界大戰期間與納粹合作的維希政府就以使用這樣的漫畫臭名昭著。
被控反猶太主義是菲永面臨的最新問題。
他曾經是贏得法國總統的熱門人選，但現在落在馬克龍和極右翼候選人勒龐之後。
他一度生機勃勃的競選由於他被控以議會助理的假工作爲名付給妻子大筆公共資金的財務醜聞而受到破壞。菲永否認有違法行爲。
法國報紙還報道，菲永接受了來自法國專賣店贈送的兩件衣服，價值遠遠超過了對總統候選人獲得捐贈的法定限額。
法國總統第一輪選舉定於4月23日舉行，在那兩週之後將是前兩名候選人的對決。
