Manuel Valls

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Manuel Valls (2019)

Manuel Carlos Valls (born August 13, 1962 in Barcelona ) is a French - Spanish politician . He was Prime Minister from March 31, 2014 to December 6, 2016 and previously Minister of the Interior of the French Republic from May 16, 2012 . From 1980 to 2017 he was a member of the Parti Socialiste . In order to run for the presidential election in France 2017 as a candidate of the PS, he resigned as Prime Minister on December 6, 2016. However, he was defeated in an internal runoff election and subsequently resigned from the Socialist Party.

Life

Manuel Valls is the son of of Catalonia coming Spanish painter Xavier Valls (1923-2006) and his wife, the Swiss educator Luis Angela Galfetti. Due to his family background, he grew up in four languages ​​(French, Italian, Catalan, Spanish) in the left-wing, intellectual milieu of Paris .

Valls studied history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . In 1982 he received French citizenship . In 1987 he married Nathalie Soulié for the first time. The couple had four children: Benjamin (* 1991), Ugo (* 1993) and the twins Joachim and Alice. Since 2010 Valls has been married to the violinist Anne Gravoin for the second time .

Political career

In 1980, at the age of 17, Valls joined the Parti socialiste (PS) out of admiration for Michel Rocard . Two of his closest friends come from this time, Alain Bauer (* 1962), later godfather of his second son, now a professor of criminology and Valls political advisor known in France, and Stéphane Fouks (* 1960), communications advisor and currently Vice President of the News and Havas advertising agency . From 1989 to 2005 Valls was a member of the Grand Orient de France Masonic Lodge .

Between 1983 and 1986 Valls was initially Parliamentary Assistant to the Member of Parliament for the Ardèche Department , Robert Chapuis . He himself was elected to the regional parliament of Île-de-France in 1986, which he chaired as vice-president from 1998 and of which he was a member until 2002. From 1989 to 1998 he was Deputy Mayor of Argenteuil and also headed the local PS branch. From 1988 to 1991 he was a member of Prime Minister Michel Rocard's staff through the mediation of Jean-Claude Huchon . He was then deputy delegate for the organization of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and, under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, from 1997 to 2002 responsible for communications and press work.

From 2001 to 2012 he was mayor of the city of Évry in the Paris region and from 2002 to 2012 a member of the Essonne Department in the National Assembly . He resigned his seat in Parliament under Article 23 of the French Constitution when he was appointed Member of the Government. Valls had previously served in various roles as an advisor to the Lionel Jospin government .

In autumn 2011 Valls ran in the Parti Socialiste primaries for the 2012 presidential election ; he was eliminated with 6% of the vote in the first ballot. Before the runoff election on October 16, he spoke out in favor of François Hollande . Since May 16, 2012 he was Minister of the Interior . In 2014, together with Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg , Valls threatened Hollande with his resignation if Jean-Marc Ayrault was not fired. As a result, on March 31, 2014, Hollande urged Ayrault to resign after a historically poor result in the regional election. Valls was appointed prime minister and Montebourg's rival Pierre Moscovici lost his ministerial office. In the government there were tensions between the left wing around Montebourg and Benoît Hamon and the business-friendly wing over Germany's euro currency policy. The left wing called for a break with Germany and a break with austerity. After Montebourgs attacked Wolfgang Schäuble and Jens Weidmann publicly, Valls criticized Montebourg's statements that he had misappropriated the tone. The criticism of France's most important partner (Germany) is unacceptable. On August 25, Valls submitted the resignation of the government and was immediately tasked with forming a new government ( Valls II cabinet ). The ministers from the left wing of the party lost their offices. Around a third of the PS MPs supported the left-wing ministers and subsequently refused Valls allegiance to various votes. The so-called frondeurs made government work much more difficult; the government had lost its parliamentary majority. Manuel Valls was only able to enforce reforms of labor and social law through emergency ordinances in accordance with Article 49 paragraph 3 of the French Constitution .

Valls is assigned to the right or centrist wing of the party; he described himself as " Blairist " and " Clintonian ". Among other things, he called for a move away from the concept of socialism in the party program, criticized redistribution and excessive state transfer payments. As mayor of a community with a high proportion of immigrants , especially from Africa, he called for greater integration efforts from them. For these positions he received heavy criticism from parts of the party. The then party chairman Martine Aubry had Valls in an open letter in July 2009 to leave the party, because such interventions harm the party and his positions are not those of the party. Valls, however, confirmed that he wanted to stay in the party. In an interview in October 2014, he called for the formation of a broad political movement of all "progressive forces" and sharply criticized the proponents of traditional socialist politics: "An end to an eternal left that clings to a long-gone and nostalgic time, plagued by a Marxist superego ”.

At the end of November 2015, during the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onwards , Valls spoke out in favor of not accepting any more refugees from the Middle East in Europe and instead influencing the neighboring countries of Syria to accept and record more refugees. Otherwise, “the people would say: No more Europe.” In this context, he also criticized Angela Merkel's policies and thus opposed the previous position of his government and his party. In mid-February 2016, he ruled out that France would accept any further refugees beyond the promised contingents.

Candidate for the 2017 presidential election

Before the publication of the book Un président ne devrait dire ça ... in October 2016, in which two French journalists made scandalous statements from Hollande public, Valls was considered loyal to the president. In November he distanced himself from his statements and advised Hollande not to run for a second term as president.

On December 5, 2016, a few days after Hollande announced that he would not stand again, Valls announced his candidacy for the Parti socialiste's candidacy in the 2017 presidential election , which was to be determined in an open primary, and stood on December 6 back as prime minister. In the first round of the primary election on January 22, 2017, he was second behind Benoît Hamon, who belongs to the party's left wing, and made it into the runoff election, in which he was defeated by Hamon on January 29, 2017.

In the elections to the French National Assembly on June 11 and June 18, 2017, Valls ran as an independent candidate in the Essonne I constituency . The movement La République en Marche of the newly elected President Emmanuel Macron nominated no opposing candidate in his constituency, after Valls had previously unsuccessfully applied for their nomination; leading personalities of the Parti socialiste supported him partly, partly his opponent. Valls narrowly won the runoff election against Farida Amrani from the left movement La France insoumise with 50.3% of the vote. On June 27, 2017, Valls announced his resignation from the Socialist Party. He joined the faction of Macron's party La République en Marche.

Candidate for Mayor of Barcelona

During the constitutional crisis in Spain from September 2017 over the independence sought by the Catalan regional government, Valls vehemently campaigned for Catalonia to remain in Spain. He was brought into play by the Ciudadanos party as a possible mayor of Barcelona in spring 2018 . In the winter semester 2018/19 he gave courses at ESADE in Barcelona; At the end of September 2018, he announced that he would run as a representative of a bipartisan platform for the city council and the mayor's office in the local elections in May 2019. Ciudadanos waived its own candidate and supported Valls. In the elections, he achieved fourth place with 13.2%. As a result, he declared his unconditional support for the previous mayor Ada Colau , who was able to prevail against the separatist candidate Ernest Maragall in the re-election as mayor with 3 votes from his parliamentary group ; this led to a break with Ciudadanos.

Fonts

  • Laïcité en face , entretiens avec Virginie Malabard, éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2005, ISBN 978-2-220-05645-6 .
  • Les Habits neufs de la gauche , éditions Robert Laffont, 2006
  • Pour en finir avec le vieux socialisme… et être enfin de gauche , entretien avec Claude Askolovitch , Robert Laffont, 2008
  • Pouvoir , Editions Stock , Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-234-06393-8 .
  • Sécurité: la gauche peut tout changer , éditions du Moment, 2011, ISBN 978-2-35417-118-6 .
  • L'énergie du changement - Abécédaire optimiste , éditions Eyrolles, 2011, détaille sous forme d'abécédaire son program de campagne des primaires
  • Laïcité en France , éditions Desclée De Brouwer, 2013

Web links

Commons : Manuel Valls  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.lesechos.fr/elections/socialiste/030412228874-manuel-valls-quitte-le-parti-socialiste-2097777.php
  2. ↑ sueddeutsche.de December 5, 2016: Premier Valls applies for the office of president - and resigns
  3. ^ Valls, Royal, Taubira ... Qui pourrait remplacer Hollande? In: Franceinfo . October 30, 2016 ( francetvinfo.fr [accessed October 30, 2016]).
  4. ^ Bastien Bonnefous: Bernard Cazeneuve nommé premier ministre. Le Monde (online), June 12, 2016, accessed June 12, 2016 (French).
  5. ↑ spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Manuel Valls (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti, accessed July 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ Munzinger: Manuel Valls ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.munzinger.de
  8. ↑ a b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 2, 2014, p. 8.
  9. ^ The celebrated and cheeky wife of the premier Basler Zeitung Online, accessed on April 17, 2014
  10. ^ François Koch: Un franc-maçon nommé Valls , lexpress.fr of May 23, 2015 , (accessed on December 6, 2016)
  11. ↑ Valls, Bauer, Fouks: le pacte de Tolbiac , lemonde.fr of November 26, 2012 , (accessed December 6, 2016)
  12. ^ Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés: M. Manuel Valls. Retrieved February 14, 2017 (French).
  13. ↑ Manuel Valls, France's new prime minister: profile . In: Telegraph.co.uk . ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed February 14, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Le Point, magazine: Manuel Valls: Biographie et articles - Le Point. Retrieved February 14, 2017 (French).
  15. ↑ Information on the successor on the website of the city of Évry (French) ( Memento from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 10, 2013
  16. ^ Constitutional text (German) on the website of the French National Assembly ( Memento of November 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 10, 2013
  17. ↑ L.EQ .: Montebourg votera pour Hollande "à titre exclusivement personnel". Liberation , October 14, 2011, accessed October 16, 2011 (French).
  18. ↑ "German Chancellor Kills the Euro" - Chaos in France: Left Merkel enemy now responsible for the economy Focus, April 3, 2014
  19. ↑ sueddeutsche.de August 25, 2014: The situation is serious ; FAZ.net (Correspondent Christian Schubert): Does Montebourg turn defeat into triumph?
  20. ↑ www.lefigaro.de August 25, 2014: Hollande et Valls projetés dans une crise sans précédent
  21. ↑ Berliner Zeitung “Duel of the French Hot Spurs” from August 25, 2014
  22. ↑ lemonde.fr: Arnaud Montebourg plaide pour un changement de cap économique du gouvernement of 23 August 2014
  23. ↑ Prime Minister Manuel Valls briefly undermines democracy , eurojournalist.eu, February 19, 2015
  24. ↑ [1]
  25. ^ Valls: "No more yesterday's left" Die Presse , October 23, 2014
  26. ↑ France calls for a freeze on admission for refugees. www.faz.net, November 25, 2015
  27. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Merkel's refugee policy: Time for a change of course - Stuttgarter Zeitung. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 15, 2016 (German).
  28. ↑ the book ( ISBN 978-2234075481 ) was published on October 12, 2016.
  29. ↑ Prime Minister Manuel Valls turns away: Hollande loses his last ally . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed November 5, 2016]).
  30. ↑ tagesschau.de
  31. ↑ Le Journal du Dimanche : Interview (November 27, 2016) , further articles
  32. ↑ Premier Valls applies for the office of president - and resigns , on sueddeutsche.de, on December 5, 2016.
  33. ^ Valls, Royal, Taubira ... Qui pourrait remplacer Hollande? In: Franceinfo . October 30, 2016 ( francetvinfo.fr [accessed October 30, 2016]).
  34. ↑ Merkur.de .
  35. ↑ Dewezet of June 28, 2017, page 2 and FAZ.net .
  36. ↑ La Vanguardia: Manuel Valls impartirá clase en Esade este curso , September 5, 2018, accessed on the same day (Spanish).
  37. ↑ France's ex-prime minister Valls wants to become mayor of Barcelona. In: Tagesspiegel.de , September 25, 2018.
  38. ↑ Election results for the mayoral election in La Vanguardia , accessed on May 27, 2019 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Valls, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valls, Manuel Carlos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (SP), member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain