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Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French–Spanish politician who served as Minister of the Overseas in the Bayrou government and first Lecornu government from 2024 to 2025. 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.
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politics · Prime Minister of France from 2014 to 2016 · politician · professions libérales et assimilés · also Manuel Valls, Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti, Valls
Born 13 August 1962 · Q10287
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the logic of victimisation is reinforced by the links between the indigenist movement and part of the left
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“The radicalisation of part of our youth, seduced by a deadly antisocial model, is in my view the most serious challenge we have faced since the second world war because it deeply damages the republican pact.”
“the logic of victimisation is reinforced by the links between the indigenist movement and part of the left”
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Career landmark: Minister for Overseas France (2024–2025).
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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
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Career landmark: city councilor of Barcelona (2019–2021).
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Campaign: 2017 presidential election.
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2017–2017).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2017–2018).
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“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.”
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2015).
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“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.”
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Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2014).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of France (2014–2016).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2013).
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Awarded Knight of the National Order of the Lion (2013).
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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 Holocaust
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2012–2012).
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Career landmark: Minister of the Interior of France (2012–2014).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (2011).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2007–2012).
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As mayor 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 al
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Became the deputy for the First Electoral District in Essonne and in 2008, the president of the tri-city jurisdiction of Évry-Centre-Essonne
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2002–2007).
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Career landmark: Mayor of Évry (2001–2012).
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Was elected vice-president of the regional council for Île-de-France, a post which he held until 2002
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Became the Secretary of Communications for the national Socialist Party and in 1997 communications and media relations chief for the prime minister's Cabinet
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Became head of the Socialist Party in Argenteuil-Bezons and deputy mayor
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Valls married Nathalie Soulié, with whom he had 4 children before divorcing
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Was elected to the regional Council for the Île-de-France and served until 1992
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Career landmark: member of the regional council of Île-de-France (1986–2002).
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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
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Aged 17, Valls joined the French Socialist Party (PS) to support Michel Rocard
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Born 1962-08-13.
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Won the prize for best still life in the third Spanish-American Art Biennial inaugurated by Franco
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Even though France did have a past in colonial history
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