Manuel Valls

Also known as Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti

French and Spanish politician

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Manuel Valls is a politician who has held significant positions in both France and Spain during his career. He matters because he represents an unusual case of a high-ranking political figure serving as a top government official in two different European countries.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 19

Top works

Un verano imperdonable : 1936
La Cançó del Marxant/Viure Així Sol
La Cançó del Marxant/Viure Així Sol
El Gessamí i la Rosa/Vals de Barri
Cançó de taverna/El barret del prestidigitador

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Film & TV

Acting · Barcelona, Spain

Known for

Dissolution, histoire d'un séisme politique2024
Laïcité, 30 ans de fracture à gauche — Self2020
François Hollande, le mal-aimé — Self (archive footage)2017
Les enfants terribles de la gauche2017
Face the Classroom — Self - Guest2017
It's Only TV — Self - Guest2010
On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest2006

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: ES
Active from: 1920-07-21
Active to: 1984-09-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 53
Total plays: 437

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,794x
Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,859x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models
· 1995 · cited 14,436x
The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 13,747x

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Quotes

“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”
“Salafism, which has destroyed and perverted a part of the Muslim world, is a threat for Muslims, and also a danger for France.”
“There is no definition of cults in law. on the other hand, these organizations know perfectly evade justice by hiding their true nature, since you are aware that freedom of conscience in France is a fundamental freedom enshrined in all our principles and our texts.”
“I say also: watch (…) to any signs that would suggest that there a disempowerment. That those who plunge into Salafism are somehow victims of a great handling as regards sects. No, there is also that part of personal will that you should never rule out.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website: manuelvalls2019.barcelona
Image: Valls Schaefer Munich Economic Summit 2015 (cropped).JPG
Height: 1.76
Number of children: 4

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birth name: Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti
Commons category: Manuel Valls
date of birth: 1962-08-13
IPA transcription: ma.ny.ɛl vals
social media followers: 1048426
P10632: Manuel Valls
affiliation string: Cabinet of the Prime Minister of France

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Article

Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (born 13 August 1962) 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.

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.