Photo: Bertrand Guay/POOL/AFPFrance's Socialists face a stark choice in Sunday's presidential primary between diehard leftist Benoit Hamon and reformist ex-prime minister Manuel Valls. Hamon joined a rebellion against what he saw as the Socialist government's rightward drift under Valls and President Francois Hollande, quitting as education minister in 2014. Socialist voters face a choice between "certain defeat" with Hamon as their nominee and "possible victory" if they chose him, Valls declared confidently after the first round. Valls makes no apologies for his pro-business stance and desire to modernise the Socialist party. "The PS (Socialist Party) elephants have already broken everything in the china shop," said Yann Marec, deputy editor of the southern Midi Libre newspaper said.

Source: The Local January 29, 2017 07:41 UTC