Photo: AFPBenoit Hamon will be the Socialist party candidate for the French presidential election after he beat ex-PM Manuel Valls in the primary runoff vote on Sunday night. Hamon achieved 58.6 percent of the vote compared to 41.3 percent for the former Prime Minister Valls. Hamon told jubilant supporters that the Socialist party had "turned towards the future". The pair later appeared for a symbolic photo opportunity in which they shook hands and waved to Socialist party members. But Socialist voters disagreed in big numbers.

Source: The Local January 29, 2017 19:50 UTC