Philippe de Villiers in Toulouse in April 2007

Philippe de Villiers (born Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon on March 25, 1949) was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007.^[1] He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top two candidates advance to the second round of voting, he was eliminated from the race. After the vote, he called on his supporters to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy.^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 3072 pixel, file size: 616 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Philippe de Villiers French presidential election... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 3072 pixel, file size: 616 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Philippe de Villiers French presidential election... A viscount is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in Britain) or a count (his continental equivalent). ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a small conservative nationalist and traditionalist party, founded on November 20, 1994. ... The 2007 French presidential election, the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five-year term. ... Nicolas Sarkozy (IPA: —  ), (born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955 in Paris, France is the current President of France, elected on 6 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the second round of the 2007 election. ...

Life

Philippe De Villiers, May 2005.

Philippe De Villiers, May 2005.

Villiers was born in Boulogne in the département of Vendée, France. He is a French aristocrat and descendant of Prime Minister and Regent Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans. ^[3] As of 2007 he is a Member of the European Parliament (Independence/Democracy Group). Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (1791 × 1188 pixel, file size: 466 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Philippe De Villiers at Paris(2005/5). ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (1791 × 1188 pixel, file size: 466 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Philippe De Villiers at Paris(2005/5). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 517 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (976 × 1131 pixel, file size: 123 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Philippe De Villiers File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 517 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (976 × 1131 pixel, file size: 123 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Philippe De Villiers File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vendée is a département in west central France, on the Atlantics Bay of Biscay. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Regent, from the Latin, a person selected to administer a state because the ruler is a minor or is not present or debilitated. ... Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Philippe Charles (August 2, 1674 - December 2, 1723) called Duke of Chartres (1674-1701), and then Duke of Orléans (1701-1723) was Regent of France from 1715 to 1723. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP)[1] is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... IND/DEM logo The Independence and Democracy (IND/DEM) group, formed July 20, 2004 is a euro-sceptic political group with 36 MEPs in the European Parliament. ...

In 1981, he resigned his post as sub-prefect because he did not want to serve the government of the socialist president François Mitterrand. In 1986-1987, he briefly served as a junior Minister for Culture (Secrétaire d'Etat auprès du Ministre de la Culture) in the second government of Jacques Chirac. Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... A prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: make in front, i. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ...   IPA: (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). ... “Chirac” redirects here. ...

Once a member of the Union for French Democracy political party, he now leads a party called the Mouvement pour la France, which has enjoyed some success in elections for the European Parliament. The party's share of the vote in the European Parliament election, 2004 declined. Nevertheless, Villiers and two other members of his party were elected. The Union for French Democracy, also known by its French acronym UDF (Union pour la Démocratie Française), is a French centrist political party. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... The Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France), or MPF, is a small conservative nationalist and traditionalist party, founded on November 20, 1994. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP) Alejo Vidal-Quadras (EPP) Gérard Onesta (Greens – EFA) Edward McMillan-Scott (ED) Mario Mauro (EPP) Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (PES) Luigi Cocilovo (ALDE) Mechtild... Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. ...

De Villiers is conservative, traditionalist, and a leading eurosceptic. He was a leader of those advocating a No vote in the 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution. The No side won, which constituted a major (albeit temporary) victory for Euroscepticism. He was the first to use the phrase "Polish Plumber" in a political speech, referring to the perceived threat of cheap East European labour to French wages levels. Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... A tradition is a story or a custom that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation, originally without the need for a writing system. ... Euroscepticism (a portmanteau of European and scepticism) has become a general term for opposition to the process of European integration. ... The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union. ... The poster featuring the so-called Polish Plumber Polish Plumber (French: Plombier Polonais) was a phrase first used by Philippe de Villiers and opponents of the European Constitution as a symbol of cheap labour coming in from Eastern Europe as a result of the Directive on services in the internal... Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. ...

2007 presidential bid

Villiers ran for the French presidency in 2007, and based his campaign on his opposition to what he sees as the rampant Islamisation of France. In May 2006, polls showed him enjoying the support of about 4% of the electorate, almost twice as high as he actually polled in the first round of the election. A "Ifop-Paris-Match" poll conducted on 12 October 2006 gave him his highest popularity ever, with 37% saying they "have excellent or good opinion" of De Villiers, and 28% saying they could vote for him in 2007. This was not borne out in the result of the first round of voting, with him receiving less than 3% of the popular vote. May 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ... is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Following the first round of the 2007 French Presidential election, he called on voters to vote for UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to counter the Socialist Party's candidate Ségolène Royal and the left. Union for a Popular Movement Uridine monophosphate, cf. ... Nicolas Sarkozy (IPA: —  ), (born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955 in Paris, France is the current President of France, elected on 6 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the second round of the 2007 election. ... Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist. ... Marie-Ségolène Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal), known as  , (IPA: ) is a French politician. ...

Alleged family scandal

In November 2006, his elder son, Guillaume, aged 29, was indicted for having raped his younger brother Laurent 15 years earlier. But Philippe de Villiers says that it is a political conspiracy against his family.^[4] 67 die and about 300,000 people are affected by floods in Ethiopias Somali Region of Ogaden after the Shabelle River bursts its banks. ...

References

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