Édouard Fillias
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Born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Île-de-France
Île-de-France (région)
Île-de-France is the wealthiest and most populated of the twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area....
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Fillias was president of Liberal Alternative
Liberal Alternative
The Liberal Alternative is a French political party created on March 1, 2006. They advocate classical liberalism against socialism or conservatism...
and that party's 2007 French Presidential candidate
French presidential election, 2007
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.The winner, decided on 5 and 6 May 2007, was Nicolas Sarkozy...
. On 13 March 2007 he withdrew and announced his support for François Bayrou
François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French centrist politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998 and was a candidate in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections. In the first round, he received 18.6% of the vote, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race....
. He was formerly president of Liberté chérie, and is married to Sabine Herold
Sabine Hérold
Sabine Herold is a French classical liberal activist and main spokeswoman of Alternative libérale, a French liberal/libertarian party.-Biography:Herold was born in Reims, France. Her parents are both teachers...
, a fellow activist.