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Founded as the "Xipoliton" ("barefoot") party in Crete (then an autonomous region of the Ottoman Empire ), its early leaders were Kostis Mitsotakis (Grandfather of Konstantinos Mitsotakis ) and Eleftherios Venizelos . After the annexation of Crete by Greece, Venizelos moved to Athens and turned the party into a national one, under the "Fileleftheron" name in 1910 . For the following 25 years, the fate of the party would be tied to that of Venizelos. The party was legally disbanned after the failed Nikolaos Plastiras coup of 1935 , although the organization remained active. During World War II , a Greek government-in-exile was formed in Cairo , Egypt , with the assistance of the British. The government was formed almost entirely of prominent Liberals, including Georgios Papandreou and Sophoklis Venizelos , even as King George (long suspected by the British for pro-German leanings) remained the official head of state. The party was reformed after the war, until it merged into Enosi Kentrou in 1961. PROMINENT MEMBERS (Name, highest office as a party member, year)
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