Manuel VallsMinister of Overseas. The announcement made by the French Prime Minister, François Bayrou, has surprised with the previous executive.
The figure of the former socialist prime minister and also former councilor at Barcelona City Councilthe city where he was born, has been the most striking. He wanted to stop at it Bayrou in an interview with BFMTV to announce his ministers.
The newly elected prime minister assures that he has chosen Manuel Valls for being a “bold” figure, but the most resonant thing came right after. Because you considers “a bit kamikace”a person “who is not afraid of risk”, he explained, in order to give weight to the problems of the territories beyond metropolitan France.
Bayrou hung up Valls’s choice of a attempt to attract part of the leftsince he himself admitted that he is “in conflict” with the progressive arc, from which he split by supporting Emmanuel Macron for the 2017 presidential elections.
The French prime minister assured that he does not believe in that kind of “marketing” and, on the contrary, stressed the importance of a former prime minister agreeing to take charge of overseas issues, as reported by Europa Press.
That fact and that Valls ministry is the second in importanceonly behind that of Education (led by former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne), responds to the fact that Bayrou sees priority in attention to overseas territories, affected by major crises recently, such as the riots in New Caledonia or the Chido cyclone in Mayotte .
