Conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon holds a board reading" Urgent, We hire an experienced butcher" as he visits a butchery in Chantenay-Villedieu, western France, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Fillon won France's first-ever conservative presidential primary after promising drastic free-market reforms and a crackdown on immigration and Islamic extremism, beating a more moderate rival who had warned of encroaching populism.
David Vincent Associated Press