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Philippe the Pretty ones of Villiers de Saintignon , more known under the name of Philippe de Villiers , is a Politician French, born the March 25th 1949 with Boulogne (the Vendée).

Family origins

The Vicomte Philippe de Villiers is resulting from a family Norman anoblie by letters patent in 1595.

One of its direct ancestors, Léonor the Pretty ones of Villiers, was mayor of Saint-Lo, then appointed (preserving) of the Manche under the Restauration.

His/her father, Jacques de Villiers (1913-2000) is the son of Louis the Pretty ones of Villiers, captain “died for France” the September 10th 1914. He is born in Lorraine and he is raised there by the family of his mother (Saintignon, ironmaster family of ) in whom he is officially adopted. Itself officer, it is used in particular with the 151e regiment of infantry under the command as Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, then colonel of this unit. He is made prisoner during the Second world war and escapes. Installed in the Vendée after his marriage, Jacques de Villiers becomes mayor of Boulogne of 1947 to 1983 following several family members of his wife. He is also general adviser of the Essarts, vice-president of the general advice of the Vendée of 1973 to 1987, and regional adviser of the Pays of the Loire until March 1992. He guides the first steps of his son in policy.

ADIMAD (Association for the defense of the interests moral and material of the former political prisoners and exiled of the French Algérie), which maintains the memory of OAS, asserts Jacques de Villiers among his missing “comrades”. Jacques de Villiers was indeed implied in 1962 in the network OAS-West directed by Horace Savelli.

Married to Dominique de Buor of Villeneuve, Philippe de Villiers is father of seven children. In November 2006, the press reveals that elder its wire (Guillaume, 29 years old) is put in examination for rapes which would have been made about fifteen years before on his/her younger brother, Laurent, younger seven years. Informant “to have made the choice of a family reconciliation”, Laurent de Villiers ends up withdrawing his complaint the June 21st 2007.

Studies and professional path

After studies with the Saint-Joseph college of Fontenay-the-Count, Philippe de Villiers obtains a control of public law to the university of Nantes in 1971, then the diploma of the Institut of political studies of Paris. Raise ENA of 1976 with 1978 (promotion Pierre Mendès-France), it integrates the prefectoral body into the exit of the school and is named principal private secretary of the prefect of Charente-Maritime. Meanwhile, it would have been briefly near to the Nouvelle royalist Action, connects dissenting national Restauration.

Sub-prefect of Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher), it requests a setting of availability from the following day of the victory of François Mitterrand with the presidential election of May 1981, not to be used a capacity as left with which it is said in deep dissension. Thanks to its many supports, he then becomes acting general of the Regional court of trade and industry of the Pays of the Loire.

In November 1981, tie profit of the decision of François Mitterrand to authorize the free radios, it creates with the Herbiers the station Alouette FM , before leaving the presidency to his/her Bertrand brother of it. In 1982, it founds Alouette Hebdo . Then, in 1984-1985, he resigns of the administration after having created in 1983 a private school of communication, Sciencescom, initially founded under name Fondation for arts and sciences of the communication . In 1977, it is at the origin of the spectacle of the Puy of Insane the, on the site of the castle of the same name, that the general advice of the Vendée buys at the price of the ground (800 000 francs for 30 hectares). It puts at it in scene a “cinescénie”, which quickly becomes one of largest the son et lumi2ere displays in France. Every Friday and Saturdays evening of summer, of voluntary recall the history of the Vendée and the castle of Puy of the Insane one. One sees there in particular scenes of the Vendean conflict at the time of the French revolution. The spectacle is a popular success. It accommodates 1 per annum million spectators and is doubled since 1989 of an amusement park (“the Large Park”) equipped with innovations each year. The edition 2006 is a large equestrian theater (3 000 sitted places) where is held a spectacle of cape and sword entitled “Musketeer of Richelieu”. The success of the spectacle is worth to him to appear in the economic television program of popularization Vive the crisis! , in February 1984, at the sides of the actor Yves Montand and the former police chief in the plan Michel Albert, like an example of answer to the economic crisis by the company spirit.

Political career

Philippe de Villiers adheres to the Republican party in 1985. In 1988, it is named “national delegate, is responsible for the cultural mediums and the relationships to the youth” of the UDF. It creates its own movement in 1991, Combat for the values , leaves the UDF in 1994 and founds the MPF then (Mouvement for France), political party of right-hand side souverainist.

Its evolution leads Philippe de Villiers to be asserted today as being apart from the political system which it names, following the example Jean-Marie Le Pen, “system UMPS”. This position however is vigorously disputed to him by the National front, which does not cease pointing the constancy of political alliances of the MPF with the UMP and the UDF, on the level of the local government agencies.

He denounces today what he calls “the Islamisation of the French company” and the Communautarisme at the time of his speech of declaration of candidature for the Elysium, on September 11th, 2005. He in addition invests like n°2 MPF Guillaume Peltier, former national director of the National front of youth (FNJ) and former militant of the National republican movement (MNR), passed to the MPF since 2001. He is also the first to vigorously denounce the installation of many Moslem places of worship under-terrrains in the unused zones of a large airport of the Paris region.

From 1986 to 2000

Philippe de Villiers enters truly in policy at the time of the legislative elections of March 1986, which see the victory of the right-hand side and which lead François Mitterrand to appoint Jacques Chirac at the station of Prime Minister, thus inaugurating the practice of the Cohabitation. Philippe de Villiers appears then as candidate of the list of Union for the the Vendée made up within the framework of an alliance of the RPR and UDF. The list system to proportional gives 3 elected officials out of 5 to his group. Philippe de Villiers, 4th of the list, is not elected, it must thus be satisfied to be a substitute.

In spite of this failure, the notoriety which it acquired as creator of the “Cinescénie” of the Puy of Insane the, is worth to him to be named at once Secretary of State in charge of the communication near the Minister for the culture and Transport, in the government Jacques Chirac. In June 1987, the death of Vincent Ansquer, appointed of the Vendée and RPR former minister, gives to Philippe de Villiers, always temporary, the possibility of entering to the National Assembly. With this intention, it is necessary for him to resign of the Government, where it is besides in dissension with its partial trusteeship, François Léotard, in addition president of the Republican party. Cultivating its local anchoring, it enters to the General advice of the Vendée, where it also succeeds Vincent Ansquer, this time like representative of the canton of Montaigu.

At the time of the presidential campaign which begins a little later it supports, in company of Charles Million, the candidate UDF Raymond Barre.

Following the dissolution of the consecutive National Assembly to the re-election of François Mitterrand the May 8th 1988, Philippe de Villiers becomes, the June 11th, the deputy having been elected with the most voice: 74,56% as of the first turn against the Socialist Claudette Adam.

In October 1988, Philippe de Villiers is elected with the presidency of the General advice of the Vendée.

In 1990, Philippe de Villiers assembles several times to the platform of the National Assembly in connection with the Affaire Urba. The same year, he vituperates the Loi Gayssot: “This law will in the long term cause to found a civic kind of Apartheid, initially while making feel guilty, then by excluding all those which end up wondering whether they are not wrong to like France”, in a maintenance with Current values of May 7th.

At the time of the European elections of 1994, it carries out its own list, on a line souverainist, with the judge Thierry Jean-Pierre and the tycoon Jimmy Goldsmith. Arrived 3rd by collecting 12,34% of the votes (2 403.972 votes), its group obtains 13 deputies with Strasbourg. Philippe de Villiers resigns of this mandate in 1997 to present itself to the legislative elections. He is re-elected with the 1st turn with 68,35% of the votes in his Vendean district.

In 1995, Philippe de Villiers is candidate with the presidential election. It obtains only 4,7% of the votes (1 443.235 votes), not being entitled thus to refunding of its expenses of countryside. It must then request financial contributions by an advertizing campaign televised to refund its important debts of countryside. It invites to vote Jacques Chirac with the second round to make obstacle with Lionel Jospin.

With legislative of 1997, it is combined with Olivier d' Ormesson: the MPF presents common candidatures with CNIP, under label LDI (independent line). At the time of the regional elections of the following year, it makes everywhere joint list with RPR.

The September 24th 1997, the Duck connected suspects Philippe de Villiers of having bribed Olivier Chiabodo, organizer of the television game Intervilles , in order to ensure the victory the team of the Puy of Insane the. The business shows a withdrawal of case but Olivier Chiabodo is laid off of TF1.

In 1999, it ties an alliance with Charles Pasqua, which enters in dissidence with the RPR, to create RPF. At the European elections of the June 13rd, the Pasqua-Villiers list arrives, in France, at the head of the right-hand side, in front of that of RPR and of DLL taken along by Nicolas Sarkozy. With 13,05% of the votes (2 304.544 votes), the Pasqua-Villiers list obtains 13 seats and Philippe de Villiers is re-elected European Député. Thereafter, the MPF amalgamates with RPF. Philippe de Villiers sits however only five months with the the European Parliament, preferring to return to the National Assembly, just like of other French chief candidates (Nicolas Sarkozy, François Holland or Robert Hue).

From 2000 with the referendum on the project of Treated establishing a Constitution for Europe (2005)

In 2000, Philippe de Villiers leaves the RPF, of which he denounces management by Charles Pasqua, and recreates MPF, then the youth movement which is associated there, the Jeunes for France (JPF), the June 30th 2001.

In February 2002, he announces that he will not be candidate with the presidential election of April 2002, officially not “to add division to division”, but also perhaps because of the debts of 1995 and of the difficulty in finding the 500 signatures required, following the scission with Charles Pasqua who does not join together them either.

In a biography of Philippe de Villiers, Eric Branca and Arnaud Folch reveal the contribution of Philippe de Villiers with Jean-Marie Le Pen of about thirty signatures of mayors who missed with this last to be able to present itself to the presidential election. “I informed mayors MPF that the democracy, for me, was to make it possible each one to vote according to its conscience and that it was antidemocratic to bar the road with Le Pen, who had carried out 15% in 1995”, he says.

He does not give an instruction of vote to the second round. In an official statement of the April 23rd 2002 ( News-Press ), it declares: “The result of the presidential elections constitutes a failure shingling for the candidate of the Socialist party Lionel Jospin. To avoid a new catastrophic cohabitation, Jacques Chirac must be based on all the sensitivities of right-hand side to propose a clear and ambitious project for France and without ambiguity for the French. It should not be especially let go the temptation of a sole party of inevitably reducing center right. Jacques Chirac, if he wants to gain the legislative ones, must respect all the components of what could be the future majority of the government of France. ”

In June 2002, Philippe de Villiers is again elected appointed the Vendée with 67,2% of the votes. He is the second deputy of right-hand side “elected better”, after Nicolas Sarkozy. He sits at the National Assembly among the independents.

In June 2004, continuing its to and from between its mandates of national deputy and member of the the European Parliament, he is elected appointed European in the interregional Circonscription Western, where the list which he carries out obtains 12,36% of the voices. With the national plan, MPF harvest 6,67% of the votes (1 145.469 votes) and can count only on 3 representatives with Strasbourg. Philippe de Villiers is regularly pinned as being one of the French representatives least assiduous in the European Parliament.

In 2005, at the time of the countryside chief clerk on the treated establishing a Constitution for Europe, Philippe de Villiers is one of holding of “not” the souverainist on the right, in company of the European deputy Paul-Marie Coûteaux, of the related deputy UMP Christine Boutin and of the deputy gaullist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. It conducts the campaign offensively, defining with its campaign director Guillaume Peltier of the topics which are a certain success, polemizing on the entry of Turkey in Europe, and taking again the “Polish Plombier” and the “directive Bolkestein - Frankenstein”. The May 29th 2005, Philippe de Villiers is regarded as one of the winners of the referendum. However, if “not” carries it in France, the Vendée is one of the departments where “yes” is largely majority.

The presidential campaign of 2007

At the beginning of June, Philippe de Villiers, is solicited for the presidency of FC Nantes, but it declines this “abstract” offer, indicates its entourage. Philippe de Villiers, supportor of long time of the “Canaries” and itself good player amateur, would have called upon a timetable already very charged to justify his refusal, according to the free daily newspaper 20 minutes .

The September 11th 2005, Philippe de Villiers is the first to officially announce its candidature for the presidential election of 2007, at the time of its closing speech of the summer school of Grasse (the Alpes-Maritimes). He wants to be candidate of “popular patriotism” against “the progressive Islamization of France”. With this speech, he hopes to marginalize a growing old Jean-Marie Le Pen and to recover part of his electorate.

Thereafter, MRAP deposits felt sorry for incentive with the racial hate against Philippe de Villiers following remarks made the July 16th 2005 on TF1, but gives up the very same day lawsuit, on October 20th, 2006. Other associations (the Islamic Council of the mosque of Lyon and the world Islamic League) were déboutées since. The president of the MPF had stated that “the Islam is the compost of the Islamisme and Islamism compost of the Terrorisme”. Philippe de Villiers announces the November 3rd 2005, at the time of a series of riots in Paris region, his intention to create with Jacques Bompard, mayor of the town of Orange, the “national collective of the elected officials of the Republic against the right to vote from abroad”, opened with “all the patriots”.

Sunday February 26th 2006, it is expelled by the service of order of S.O.S Racism of the first ranks of walk in memory of Ilan Halimi, to which it had been invited by CRIF. Philippe de Villiers then decides to carry felt sorry for against S.O.S Racism. Two days before, its thesis anti-Islamic had been worth to him to be ovationné with the synagog of the Victoire by the Jewish community, at the time of the funeral of Ilan Halimi.

The April 27th 2006 its new test in connection with “the Islamization of France”, heading the mosques of Roissy , appears with the Albin-Michel editions. In May 2006, Philippe de Villiers is threatened of legal proceedings to have used in his book an internal note of the General informations mentioning possible risks of islamist terrorism to the airport of Roissy. This note, whose authenticity is disputed by the RG, would emanate from the DST, according to Paris Match of the April 26th (see also Islam and French Politique). Philippe de Villiers says later to have obtained the note of the DST of his son, Guillaume. Since, the ministry for the interior made carry out the closing of six illegal rooms of prayer in the airport of Roissy CDG.

In April 2006, Philippe de Villiers refuses the alliance suggested by Jean-Marie Le Pen, asserting great differences in sight between them, and in particular his “unbearable skids” on the Second world war.

For as much, its political positioning, aiming at being different as well from Nicolas Sarkozy as of Jean-Marie Le Pen, opens only one reduced room for maneuver to him. It does not produce in any case the takeoff awaited in the studies of opinion: the successive surveys grant to Philippe de Villiers only 3 to 5% of voting intentions. Its team of countryside thus decides, in July 2006, to reorientate her speech, by putting “less ahead” the topic of the “Islamization of France” and by targeting more particularly “disappointed sarkozysme” supposed to be able to be recruited among the liberals, the hunters and “more largely among the rural ones”.

Philippe de Villiers (“P2V” as its younger partisans call it) starts in September 2006 a turn of France who must at least once lead it in each department. The president of the Movement for France known as to want “to immerse itself for three months” in the population. It meets behind closed doors of the people resting on various branches of industry in order to listen to them. “There I hear things which one does not say on the public place”, he affirms. However, the public opinion polls which follow one another do not record progression of the candidate, allotting to him only between 1 and 2% of voting intentions.

The April 10th 2007, it presents to Lyon the contents of its program “to turn the back on the three evils which gangrènent our company: the Mondialisme, the Socialism and the communautarism”. It summarizes this program in a word: “My project, it is the Patriotisme! ”. According to him, “patriotism is a method of government, the only one which will allow France to leave the Chômage of mass and to stop the hemorrhage of the Délocalisation S. Seul patriotism can make it possible to restore the reference marks of the company and the values of the personal liabilities (...) the authority of the State and the Republic. ” This program is declined in 337 measurements, among which suppression of the Wealth tax and the 35 hours and the fixing of the Taxes and social security deduction ata maximum rate of 38% of GDP.

During his countryside, Philippe de Villiers was in particular illustrated by a series of posters to the very direct messages, such “You are against the marriage homo… me also”, “You also prefer the craft industry with the assistantship… me”, “You for immigration zero… me”, are also supplemented by the leitmotiv “Villiers, the good sense”.

At the evening of the 1st turn of the election, Philippe de Villiers obtains 2,23% of the voices (818 407 votes), relativizing a little more his position of “winner of May 29th, 2005”. In its department of the Vendée, which it quoted throughout its countryside like being the proof of its successes and like illustration of its program, the voters place it in 4th position, with 11,28% of the votes.

Philippe de Villiers does not give initially any call to vote for the second turn, declaring at the evening of April 22nd: “I am not owner of my voices, the French are free”. This positioning is quickly disputed by several persons in charge of the MPF, like the members of Parliament Philippe Darniche and Bruno Retailleau. The April 25th, Philippe de Villiers then invites finally “the French to make the choice of the right-hand side and Nicolas Sarkozy to bar the road with the left”.

Philippe de Villiers and the European Parliament

Regularly pointed for his absenteeism with the the European Parliament, Philippe de Villiers could incur financial sanctions. In June 2006 and July 2007, it took part in less than half of the 61 plenary sessions which were taken place, being classified the good last of the French representatives. Its repeated absences are also pointed in the meetings of commission. The Parliament thus plans finally to implement the applicable provision in such a case, by requiring the refunding of 50% of the contractual monthly allowance for overheads versed with the members of Parliament, and whose amount rises with 3.946 € per month. This procedure is envisaged against the European deputies not having attended half of the days of session, without valid justification.

Mandates and functions

Electoral mandates

Deputy with the National Assembly

Deputy with the the European Parliament

Governmental functions

Works

  • Open letter with the cutters of head and the liars of the Bicentenary (1989)

  • the Bitch which miaule (1990)
  • Our Europe without Maastricht (1992)
  • Before it is too late (1993)
  • the Company in complicity (1994)
  • Dictionnaire of politically correct with the Frenchwoman (1996)
  • the Adventure of Puy of Insane the (1997)
  • the Machination of Amsterdam (1998)
  • Europe differently , with Georges Berthu (1999)
  • You liked the animal flours, you will adore the euro (2001)
  • the 51e star of the American flag (2003)
  • When the bees die, the days of the man are counted (2004)
  • the Turkish scenes of large the mamamouchi (2005)
  • the Mosques of Roissy (2006)
  • France which gains (2007)

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