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Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as
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from 2014 until 2016 under president
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. Born in
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to a Spanish father and a
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mother, Valls was
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of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and was first elected to the
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for
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's social liberal wing, sharing common orientations with Blairism. He was
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from 2012 to 2014 and Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016. He was a candidate in the Socialist Party primary for the 2017 presidential election, losing the Socialist nomination in the second round to Benoît Hamon. Following his defeat, he endorsed
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despite having previously pledged to support the Socialist candidate. In the 2017 legislative election, he was re-elected by a narrow margin as a Member of Parliament. He then left the Socialist Party and joined La République En Marche group in the National Assembly though not formally joining the party. In October 2018, he resigned from the National Assembly to run for mayor in the 2019 Barcelona municipal election supported by the centrist Ciudadanos party. He came in fourth in the election. Valls is also a past opponent of the Catalan independence movement. In 2022 Valls attempted to return to the
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as a member of LREM, for the Fifth constituency for French residents overseas. However he was unsuccessful after coming third in the vote.


Early life and family

Valls' paternal grandfather was the editor-in-chief of a Republican newspaper in Spain. During the
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, he sheltered priests who were fleeing from the
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.L'homme qui veut être le Sarko de la gauche
, ''Le Point'', #1820, 2 August 2007, pp. 24–27.
After
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's victory, he was forced out of his job as editor. Valls' father was the Barcelona-born painter Xavier Valls (1923–2006). In the late 1940s, Xavier Valls moved to Paris and met his future wife, Luisangela Galfetti, a
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-born
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citizen, the sister of architect
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. In 1955, he won the prize for best still life in the third Spanish-American Art Biennial inaugurated by Franco. Valls was born in Barcelona while his parents were there on holiday. He grew up with them at their home in France and became naturalized as French.


Political career


Rise in the Socialist Party (1980–2014)

In 1980, aged 17, Valls joined the
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(PS) to support Michel Rocard. Within the PS, he defended the "Second Left" (La Deuxième gauche), rather than the more pragmatic left of François Mitterrand. (The Second left could be compared to the 1960s "New Left" – opposed to party lines and bureaucracy, anti-statist, supportive of anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist movements worldwide, favouring direct action politics.) While studying history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Tolbiac campus, he was a member of the UNEF-ID, a progressive students' union. In 1980, he met two other student supporters of Rocard with whom he became close friends: Alain Bauer (Bauer is the godfather of Valls' second son), and Stéphane Fouks. From 1983 to 1986, Valls was a parliamentary attaché for the member for Ardèche, Robert Chapuis. In 1986 he was elected to the regional Council for the Île-de-France and served until 1992. In 1988, he became head of the Socialist Party in Argenteuil-Bezons and deputy mayor. From 1988 to 1991 he was responsible for the functioning of the prime minister's cabinet. From 1991 to 1993 he was an inter-ministerial delegate to the
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in Albertville. In 1995, he became the Secretary of Communications for the national Socialist Party and in 1997 communications and media relations chief for the prime minister's Cabinet. In 1998 he was elected vice-president of the regional council for Île-de-France, a post which he held until 2002. While vice-president of the regional Council, he was also elected
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of Évry in 2001, a post he held until 2012. In 2002, he became the deputy for the First Electoral District in Essonne and in 2008, the president of the tri-city jurisdiction of Évry-Centre-Essonne. In the 2008 elections to choose the head of the Socialist Party, Valls supported the former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal over her former partner
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; Hollande eventually won. On 13 June 2009, Valls announced his intention to run in the Socialist presidential primary in 2011 for the 2012 election. On 30 June 2009 he founded a political organisation with the slogan "The Left Needs Optimism," to provide legal and financial support the Socialist Primary candidates. On 7 June 2011, he confirmed his candidacy for the Socialist primary. On the evening of the first primary round, 9 October 2011, Valls achieved only 6% of the vote, just behind Ségolène Royal. He was therefore eliminated. On the night of his defeat, he endorsed
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for the second round. Valls was appointed
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in the Ayrault Cabinet in May 2012.


Prime Minister of France (2014–2016)

In March 2014, following major losses to centre-right and extreme-right political parties in French municipal elections, President
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appointed Valls to the post of Prime Minister. He replaced Jean-Marc Ayrault who had resigned earlier that day. The Valls Cabinet was formed on 2 April 2014, consisting of 15 ministers from the Socialist Party and two ministers from the Radical Party of the Left. After the 2016 Nice truck attack, he was criticised for saying that "France will have to live with terrorism." French citizens booed him when he joined the memorial for the victims, yelling "murderer" and "resign" at him before the minute of silence for the dead began.


Post-premiership (2016–present)


2017 Presidential election

Valls left office on 6 December 2016 to run in the primaries to be the Socialist candidate in the 2017 presidential election. He was replaced by Minister of the Interior
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. He came in second during the first round of the primary on 22 January, behind his ex- Minister of National Education Benoît Hamon. The two candidates advanced to the second round, which was held 29 January. In the second round, Valls was defeated in the second round, in which he received 41% of the vote to Hamon's 58%. The more left-leaning candidate unexpectedly defeated Valls and became the Socialist Party's nominee. Despite subsequently promising to support Hamon's candidature, Valls later declared his support for
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of En Marche!. After his loss in the Socialist Party primary, Valls refused to endorse Benoît Hamon, citing the difference in views. In March, Valls announced on BFMTV that he was endorsing
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. After Macron's win in the second round of the presidential election, Valls announced that he wanted to run for reelection to the
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under the En Marche! banner, declaring that the Socialist Party was "dead". The Socialist Party has started disciplinary proceedings against Valls, perhaps resulting in his expulsion. En Marche! rejected Valls's application to join, but said it would not oppose him in the
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. Valls won reelection as an independent with 50.3% of the vote in the second round, but the result was challenged by his opponent, Farida Amrani of La France Insoumise.


2019 Barcelona municipal election

In April 2018, it was reported that Valls was considering an offer to run as a candidate for mayor of
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under the banner of
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. On 25 September 2018, Valls announced his candidacy for Mayor of Barcelona in the May 2019 elections and declared that he was resigning all political responsibilities in France. He registered his own political party of municipal scope on 28 March 2019, Barcelona pel Canvi (BCN Canvi). As his candidacy was supported by the anti-separatist and liberal Citizens, the electoral list for the municipal election (named "''Barcelona pel Canvi–Ciutadans''") included members of Citizens and obtained 6 seats (out of 41) at the ballots. Valls, along the other 2 municipal councillors elected in the Barcelona pel Canvi–Ciutadans list who were not members of Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (
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and Eva Parera), gave an "unconditional" vote to
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in the investiture of the Mayor of Barcelona, with the sole purpose of preventing separatist
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becoming Mayor. Days later, Cs announced the breakup of their alliance with Valls, and their will to form their own municipal group, to which Corbacho also joined later. Valls had been critical of the Cs' strategy mastered by party leader
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, after the rapprochement of Cs with the far-right Vox, and he later pointed out that (teaming up) "with Vox you end up dirtying your hands and, in some ways, the soul".


Political beliefs

Valls is on the right wing of the Socialist Party, with a similar approach to the German and Dutch Social Democratic Parties. During the 2011 presidential primary, he defined himself as " Blairiste" or " Clintonien", and described his position as "in the tradition of Pierre Mendès France, Lionel Jospin and Michel Rocard". As prime minister, he agreed with being compared to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, an adherent to the centrist Third Way ideology. Valls advocates an "economically realistic" political speech without "demagoguery". He voices his dissent in the party by his vision of individual responsibilities ("The new hope that the Left must carry is individual self-realization: to allow everyone to become that which they are") and his positions against a system where some people live only from national solidarity. Describing himself as "reformist rather than revolutionary," he wants to "reconcile the left to the liberal approach".


Immigration

In his book ''To Put the Old Socialism to Rest ... And Finally be Left-Wing'', he declared support for immigration "quotas". On Sunday 9 June 2009, while visiting a market in Évry, of which he was then mayor, he was caught on camera suggesting that the presence of more white people would give a better image of the city. In October 2013, his stance in the Dibrani case met with high public approval, with a global approval rate of 74% (57% approval rate from the left, and 89% from the right). On 14 May 2020, the French government was condemned by the Hirtu Case, a case that dates back to 2013 when Manuel Valls was Minister of the Interior of France. The
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(ECHR) condemned the French government for the forced evacuation in April 2013 of a gypsy camp on the outskirts of Paris that had been set up there in October 2012 following the dismantling of a previous camp. The judgment states that Article 8 (right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence) and Article 13 (right have an effective remedy before a national authority notwithstanding) of the
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had been violated. Human Rights, and also ordered the French state to pay compensation of 7,000 euros for each of the plaintiffs for non-pecuniary damage, and 7,900 euros for legal costs. In an interview with the right-wing magazine '' Valeurs actuelles'' in June 2020, he was asked about the
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(a young Malian French man who died in custody after being apprehended by police), and Manuel Valls stated that "the logic of victimisation is reinforced by the links between the indigenist movement and part of the left" and that "the class struggle disappears in favour of confrontation, of war between 'races'". He also denied that one could speak of " white privilege" in France, contrasting it with the United States, and claiming that the French Republic had already abolished slavery in 1848 even though France did have a past in colonial history.


Retirement age

Valls supported the extension of the years of required pension-contribution to 41, as advocated and achieved by the Sarkozy administration. The extension means that due to the maximum mandatory
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of 62, only immigrants receiving the right to legally work around the age of 21 would be allowed to receive the pension to which they would have contributed throughout their careers. "The role of the Left is not to deny democratic changes, nor to hide the size of deficits ... The Left can advocate an à la carte pension system and increasing the pay-in period."


Views on religion

In 2002, as
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of Évry, he opposed a branch of the national grocery store chain Franprix, located in a predominately Muslim neighbourhood, deciding to sell only halal-certified meat/products and products that do not contain alcohol. As parliamentarian and interior minister, he took strong stances on secularism, supported crackdowns on the wearing of niqābs in public and defended a nursery which sacked an employee for demanding to wear one at work. He had harsh words for anti-gay marriage protesters. When Catholics protested against " Golgota Picnic", he supported the theatre director in the name of
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. When Dieudonné's quenelle gesture became popular in 2013, Valls said he would consider "all legal means" to ban Dieudonné's "public meetings", given that he "addresses in an obvious and insufferable manner the memory of victims of the
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." In July 2014, following violent anti-Israel protests in Paris, Valls denounced what he called a "new form of anti-Semitism".


Cannabis

On 12 October 2009, Valls expressed "total disagreement" with a proposal by Daniel Vaillant for decriminalisation or legalisation of cannabis. The plan involved depriving traffickers of a source of income. Valls argued, "The question of drugs that produce considerable damage in some neighbourhoods and nourish the underground economy, cannot be handled this way. There is a certain number of rules that cannot be removed."


Terrorism

Valls said after the 2015 Paris attacks that French society needed a "general mobilisation" against the appeal of "deadly" doctrines. After the 2016 Nice truck attack, Valls said, "Times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism, and we must face this together and show our collective sang-froid. France is a great country and a great democracy and we will not allow ourselves to be destabilized." The comments on the Nice attack provoked criticism in France.


Honours

* Grand Officer of the
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of the
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(France, 2016) * Grand Cross in the
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(France, 2016) * Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Senegal, 2016) * Grand Cross of the
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(Spain, 2015) * Commander of the
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(Mali, 2015) * Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the
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(UK, 2014) * Grand Cross of the
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(Spain, 2013) * Knight of the National Order of the Lion (Senegal, 2013) * Commander of the
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(Ivory Coast, 2013) * Commander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco, 2011)


Political offices

Governmental functions *Prime Minister: 31 March 2014 to 6 December 2016 *Minister of Interior: May 2012 to March 2014 Elected offices *City councillor of
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: June 2019 to August 2021. *Member of the
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for
Essonne Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.Île-de-France The Île-de-France (, ; literally "Isle of France") is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France. Centred on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the ''Région parisienne'' (; en, Pa ...
: 1998–2002 (Resignation). *Regional councillor of Île-de-France: 1986–2002 (Resignation). *Mayor of Évry: 2001–2012 (Resignation). Re-elected in 2008. *Municipal councillor of Évry: 2001–2018. Re-elected in 2008 and 2014 *Deputy-mayor of
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: 1989–1998 (Resignation).


Personal life

In 1987, Valls married Nathalie Soulié, with whom he had 4 children before divorcing. On 1 July 2010, he married Anne Gravoin, a violinist and winner of the
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' prestigious Premier Prix for Violin and Chamber Orchestra. He met Susana Gallardo in
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, from August 2018 they are dating, and they are going to marry on 14 September 2019. Owing to his family background, Manuel Valls is fluent in French, Spanish,
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and Italian,qu'il faut savoir de Manuel Valls
, ''lejdd.fr'', 16 May 2012.
and is distantly related to the Marquesses del Bosch de Arés.


Publications

*''La laïcité en face'', a dialogue with Virginie Malabard, Paris, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2005 *''Les habits neufs de la gauche'', Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 2006 *''Pour en finir avec le vieux socialisme... et être enfin de gauche'', a dialogue with Claude Askolovitch, Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 2008 * ''Pouvoir'', Paris, Éditions Stock, 2010 * ''Sécurité : la gauche peut tout changer'', Paris, Éditions du Moment, 2011 * ''L'énergie du changement : Abécédaire optimiste'', Paris, Éditions Eyrolles, 2011 * ''La Laïcité en France'', Paris, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2013 * *''Zemmour, l'antirépublicain'', Éditions de l'observatoire, 2022


References


External links


Manuel Valls campaign website for Barcelona mayorManuel Valls' biography
on the French government website
Data on the site of the French National Assembly
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