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Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a politician of Franco-Spanish background whose career has been built mainly in the French public sphere, with forays into Spanish politics. Politically trained in the social-liberal wing of the Socialist Party, he rose to prominence as mayor of Évry (2001–2012), as a deputy for Essonne (from 2002) and as a central figure in the executive: he served as Minister of the Interior (2012–2014) and Prime Minister of France (2014–2016) during François Hollande’s presidency. Throughout the 2010s he underwent a significant political shift: he ran in the Socialist primaries in 2017, later supported Emmanuel Macron and joined La République En Marche’s parliamentary group without formally joining the party. In 2018 he left national French politics to run for mayor of Barcelona, where he served as a city councillor until 2021, and in 2024 he returned to the French government as minister responsible for the overseas territories. Valls is known for his firm positions on security and integration, and for a political course that moved between local and national levels. Coming from a family connected to the arts and the press, his political record combines advocacy for economic and social reforms with public controversies that arose during moments of national crisis.