Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Former French prime minister Manuel Valls abandons socialist party candidate

The former French prime minister Manuel Valls says he's backing centrist Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election - and not his own party's candidate. 
Valls quit the prime minister's job in November last year to run - unsuccessfully - for the socialist nomination himself.
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports from Brussels. 

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