All photos: AFPPrime Minister Manuel Valls has a reputation for never ducking out of a good fight. Prime Minister Manuel Valls has a reputation for never ducking a fight. Valls, a former interior minister, had been waiting in the wings but was showing increasing signs of impatience. Hollande's protege walked out on the government two years later to further his own presidential ambitions -- infuriating Valls who accused him of "destroying the left". 'French grandeur'Born in Barcelona, Valls' parents fled Franco's dictatorship to France when he was a teenager.

Source: The Local December 02, 2016 15:45 UTC