Fillon will be the right-wing candidate in France.
With a third of the votes counted, François Fillon obtained 68,4% of the votes, against 31,3% for Alain Juppé; Fillon, who was prime minister during Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year presidency, also won in the first round of the primaries with 44,1% of the votes and positioned himself as the favorite to be the conservative presidential candidate.
247 - With a third of the votes counted, François Fillon obtained 68,4% of the votes, against 31,3% for Alain Juppé. Fillon, who was prime minister during Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year presidency, also won the first round of the primaries with 44,1% of the votes and positioned himself as the favorite to be the conservative presidential candidate.
Former Prime Minister and current mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppé, came in second place with 28,6% of the vote. Former President and also a primary candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, who came in third with 20,7%, decided to withdraw from the race and announced his support for Fillon.