Manuel Valls casts his vote during the second round of the Socialist party primary election. The Socialist primary runoff offered a stark choice between two candidates — Benoit Hamon and former prime minister Manuel Valls — on opposite poles of the beleaguered party, with sharply different plans for France. Voting in Evry, south of Paris, Valls echoed that call. Article Continued BelowIn the sometimes testy primary campaign, Valls, 54, emphasized his experience in government. Hamon, a former junior minister and briefly Valls’ education minister, picked up backing from Arnaud Montebourg, another Socialist left-wing rebel who defied Hollande.

Source: thestar January 29, 2017 17:14 UTC