With the arrangement of financial gains for his wife and the appointement of his son to a job paid from public funds, the revelations this week concerning Richard Ferrand, barely a week into his post as newly-elected president Emmanuel Macron’s minister for “territorial cohesion”, are so obviously similar to the scandal that sunk conservative presidential candidate François Fillon that Ferrand cannot hope to come through the growing controversy in one piece.
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