French PM Manuel Valls announces 2017 presidential bid and resignation

‘French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced on Monday that he is running to become the Socialist candidate in the 2017 presidential election in France.
“I am a candidate for the presidency of the republic,” Valls said at his headquarters in the Parisian suburb of Evry.
“I want to give everything for France,” he stressed, adding that he “cannot be Prime Minister while being a candidate,” he said. The 54-year-old Spanish-born prime minister announced that his government will resign on Tuesday.’
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