Manuel Valls
Manuel Carlos Valls (, ; born 13 August 1962) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician. He has been a Member of the National Assembly since 2002 and also Mayor of Évry. On 16 May 2012 he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the French government of Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Valls was born in Barcelona, Spain, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1982. He is a prominent supporter of F.C. Barcelona, the famous club whose anthem was composed by his second cousin and namesake.
After serving as an advisor on youth issues for Prime Minister Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1991, he held the position of Communications Advisor to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2001.
He sought the PS nomination for President of France in the 2012 election. Ranked fifth at the end of the first round of the PS primary, he pledged his support to François Hollande and called for votes for Hollande in the second round. Valls is often considered in France as a representative of the social-liberal wing of the French Socialist Party, sharing common orientations with Scandinavian-style Social Democracy and Blairism.
Read more about Manuel Valls: 2011 Primaries and Presidential Campaign, Political Orientations, Economic Policy and European Integration, International Issues, Former Mandates, Publications
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