Ex-French PM eyes Barcelona post
barcelona — France’s combative former prime minister Manuel Valls announced Tuesday that he will run for mayor of Barcelona, in what will be an unprecedented bid for political power in another European country.
“I want to be the next mayor of Barcelona,” the former Socialist premier said in Catalan at an event in the old centre of Barcelona, Spain’s second biggest city where he was born 56 years ago.
After weeks of suspense, the former Socialist premier unveiled his decision in Barcelona, Spain’s second biggest city where he was born.
Valls, 56, grew up in Paris with his Catalan father and Swiss-Italian mother. On Friday, Valls tweeted an enigmatic photo of his feet on paving stones with the word “Barcelona...”. —