said that it underscored the failures of the president.

“Tonight, the president of the republic clearly admits that his failure forbids him to go further,” Fillon wrote.

“This five-year term is ending in a political mess and the collapse of power," the Les Republicans party candidate added.

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French Prime Minister Manuell Valls has cheered the announcement by the President.

“This is the decision of a statesman,” he noted.

In 2012, Hollande, of the centrist Socialist party, was a popular choice to replace his conservative counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, and won the presidency. However, in the years to come his popularity took a massive nosedive, driven by high unemployment and failed economic growth, which was promised during Hollande’s election campaign but not delivered.

The raising of taxes in 2012 also led to more criticism ofheld responsible for the reprehensible use of his veterinary skills.”

Three dogs died after contracting a virus from the operations. Several others found new homes. The case against Elorez, 39, stalled after he fled to Spain before his 2015 arrest there. He said his mentor, a veterinarian professor in Colombia, convinced him to traffic drugs, a period he referred to as “a dark chapter in my life.”

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“At 21, when he [Elorez] met the professor he was enamored with this guy,” Elorez’s lawyer, Mitchell Dinnerstein, told the New York Daily News.

Elorez has already served over three years in jail in Spain and New York, which will count toward his sentence. He will be deported to either Spain, where his family lives, or Colombia