Hollande decides to run for re-election as the Socialist Party candidate (decision expected Dec 10th) he could be challenged by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg. Current second round polls for any combination of these candidates suggest likely Socialist nominee too close

holding unyielding versions of secularism (laicite) on the political left. Today the most popular Socialist minister seems to be Interior Minister Manuel Valls, whose major activity is taking extra-strong measures against illegal migrants, mostly Muslim migrants, to France. Furthermore, at a time when neo

1998 team, said he was supportive "because my grandfather was discriminated against because he is black and my grandmother because she is a woman." Manuel Valls, the interior minister, opened his remarks with a letter of support from the president of Argentina, which he read in Catalonian- accented Spanish,