Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French and Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016. He was previously Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the Socialist Party, and was a candidate in their primary for the 2017 presidential election, losing the Socialist nomination in the second round to Benoît Hamon.
Born in Barcelona to a Spanish father and a Swiss mother, Valls was Mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and was first elected to the National Assembly of France in 2002. He was regarded as belonging to the Socialist Party's social liberal wing, sharing common orientations with Blairism.
“France must live with terrorism, but we will not give in”
la France doit vivre avec le terrorisme, mais nous ne céderons pas
Statement regarding Nice attacks https://www.rt.com/news/351228-valls-nice-statement-social-media/, Russia Today, 15 July 2016
Valls: French Muslims to conduct “all over” the fight against Salafism http://www.archyxx.com/valls-french-muslims-to-conduct-all-over-the-fight-against-salafism/, Archyxx. (July 20, 2016)
Statement regarding Nice attacks https://www.rt.com/news/351228-valls-nice-statement-social-media/, Russia Today, 15 July 2016. Also https://archive.is/u8MkQ and https://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2018/01/07/comment-le-terrorisme-a-change-la-france
Original: (fr) Nous avons changé d’époque, la France doit vivre avec le terrorisme, mais nous ne céderons pas à la menace terroriste, nous devons faire bloc, être solidaires. La France a été une nouvelle fois frappée dans sa chair
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