
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will on Monday announce he is running to become the Socialist candidate for president in elections next year, sources close to him have told AFP. The prime minister’s office announced only that he would make a statement at 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) from his political ...

French President Francois Hollande has declared in a statement that he will not seek a second term in office in the upcoming election in 2017, becoming the first head of state not to stand for reelection in modern French history. “I am aware today of the risk that going down ...