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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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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Hort
- Father
- Xavier Valls
- Educated at
- University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- Political party
- Valents
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Official website
- manuelvalls2019.barcelona
- Image
- Valls Schaefer Munich Economic Summit 2015 (cropped).JPG
- Height
- 1.76
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- Paris
- Residence
- Paris
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- Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti
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- Manuel Valls
- date of birth
- 1962-08-13
- IPA transcription
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- relative
- Roser Capdevila
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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