Manuel Valls

Manuel Valls is a member of the Socialist Party (PS), Prime Minister from March 2014 to December 2016. He was mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and member of Parliament for the first riding of Essonne from 2002 to 2012 and from 2017 to 2018. 
In 2018, he announced his withdrawal from French politics to be a candidate in the 2019 municipal elections in Barcelona: his list came in fourth and he was elected municipal councillor. After returning to France, he unsuccessfully contested the 2022 parliamentary elections of representatives of the French established outside France for the coalition of the presidential majority Ensemble.