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Manuel Valls
Manuel Valls | |
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.JPG) Valls in 2015 | |
| Minister of State Minister of the Overseas | |
| Assumed office 23 December 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | François Bayrou |
| Preceded by | François-Noël Buffet |
| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 31 March 2014 – 6 December 2016 | |
| President | François Hollande |
| Preceded by | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 16 May 2012 – 1 April 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Marc Ayrault |
| Preceded by | Claude Guéant |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Cazeneuve |
| Mayor of Évry | |
| In office 18 March 2001 – 24 May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Olivier |
| Succeeded by | Francis Chouat |
| Member of the National Assembly for Essonne's 1st constituency | |
| In office 19 June 2002 – 3 October 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Jacques Guyard |
| Succeeded by | Francis Chouat |
| Member of the Barcelona City Council | |
| In office 15 June 2019 – 31 August 2021 | |
| Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France | |
| In office 21 March 1986 – 20 June 2002 | |
| Constituency | Essonne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti 13 August 1962 Barcelona, Spain |
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| Political party |  FranceLREM/RE (2021–present) |
| Other political affiliations | |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Alma mater | Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti[a] (born 13 August 1962) is a French–Spanish[1][2] politician who serves as Minister of the Overseas in the Bayrou government since 2024. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hollande and was also involved in Spanish politics from 2018 to 2021.
Born in Barcelona to a Spanish father and a Swiss mother, Valls grew up in France. He was mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and was first elected to the National Assembly of France for Essonne in 2002. He was regarded as belonging to the Socialist Party's social liberal wing, sharing common orientations with Blairism. He was Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2014 and Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016. He was a candidate in the Socialist Party primary for the 2017 French presidential election, losing the Socialist nomination in the second round to Benoît Hamon. Following his defeat, he endorsed Emmanuel Macron despite having previously pledged to support the Socialist candidate.
In the 2017 French legislative election, Valls was re-elected by a narrow margin as Member of Parliament. He then left the Socialist Party and joined La République En Marche group (LREM) in the National Assembly, although he did not formally join the party. In October 2018, he resigned from the National Assembly to run for mayor of Barcelona in the 2019 election. Valls failed to be elected mayor, coming in fourth in the election. He served as a Barcelona city councillor until 2021.
In 2022, Valls attempted to return to the French National Assembly as a member of LREM for the fifth constituency for French citizens abroad but was unsuccessful, coming third in the vote.[3]
In December 2024, he returned to the French Government as Minister in charge of Overseas France.
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- ^ "S'il échoue à Barcelone, Manuel Valls arrêtera "sans doute" la politique". 10 January 2018. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Valls candidat à la mairie de Barcelone ? "Il sait qu'il est un peu cramé en France"". 21 April 2018. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Our Campaigns - French National Assembly - Overseas 5th Race - Jun 05, 2022". Archived from the original on 3 September 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
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