François Fillon

Le Mans, Sarthe, France

François Fillon

Biography

François Charles Armand Fillon (born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans (previously known as the Union for a Popular Movement), the country's largest centre-right political party, for the 2017 presidential election where he ranked third in the first round of voting. Fillon became Jean-Pierre Raffarin's Minister of Labour in 2002 and undertook controversial reforms of the 35-hour working week law and of the French retirement system. In 2004, as Minister of National Education he proposed the much debated Fillon law on Education. In 2005, Fillon was elected senator for the Sarthe department. His role as a political advisor in Nicolas Sarkozy's successful race for president led to his becoming prime minister in 2007. Fillon resigned upon Sarkozy's defeat by François Hollande in the 2012 presidential elections. Running on a platform described as conservative, he won the 2016 Republican presidential...

Known For

L’enfer de Matignon

Un berger et deux perchés à l'Elysée ?

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi

Qui a tué François Fillon ? L'Enquête

François Fillon, l'homme qui ne pouvait pas être président

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

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