Former French PM Manuel Valls announced on Tuesday that he was quitting the Socialist Party and instead would sit among the MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's Republique en Marche party in the French parliament.
France's Socialists voted on Sunday to pick their candidate for this year's presidential polls as a fresh scandal engulfed the election's conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon.
France's Socialists face a stark choice in Sunday's presidential primary between diehard leftist Benoit Hamon and reformist ex-prime minister Manuel Valls.
France's Socialists voted on Sunday in the first round of a presidential primary with candidates including former prime minister Manuel Valls seeking traction in an election expected to see the country tilt to the right.
France's Socialists hold the first round of voting in their presidential primary Sunday, with candidates including former prime minister Manuel Valls fighting for relevance as the country veers to the right.
Former French premier Manuel Valls came under fire Sunday for his cautious stance on taking in refugees during the migrant crisis, in a fraught second debate of leftwing candidates for the presidency.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said onSunday that the country's state of emergency, imposed after last year's Paris attacks, will likely be extended as France gears up for presidential elections.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, fed up or finally sensing his opportunity, has turned on President Francois Hollande six months from elections in which his Socialist party faces crushing defeat.
Nobody yet knows the winner of France's presidential election next year, but the smart money is on one loser: The three-percent cap on government deficits enshrined in eurozone rules.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls accused the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of being a "bad man" Friday, having previously criticised him over his views on Muslims.
An ambitious US-EU free trade deal will fail without clear quality guarantees, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Tuesday as his trade minister said chances of an accord were fading.
The French Prime Minister has vowed to take urgent action to cut unemployment, acknowledging measures are needed to stem the rise of the far-right National Front.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned of the risk of a chemical and biological attack on France, saying the macabre imagination of terrorists knows no limits.
France's prime minister has turned heads in his native Spain, after he suggested that Barcelona football club could play in France if Catalonia declares independence.
France's prime minister has written a cheque for €2,500 ($2,800) to settle a trip to the Champions League final in Berlin with his two sons that landed him in hot water.
France's socialist government on Tuesday forced a controversial package of key economic reforms through parliament without a vote, sparking a walk-out from the opposition and a vote of no-confidence.
Just as he admitted he had made one serious "blunder" the French PM Manuel Valls went and made another, although this geography-based one was a little more embarrassing than scandalous.
France's Socialist premier Manuel Valls
admitted in remarks published Sunday to having made "a blunder" by using a
government jet to fly to the Champions League final with his two sons.
