Back Gouarnamant Manuel Valls (1) Breton Regeringen Manuel Valls I Danish Kabinett Valls I German Κυβέρνηση Μανουέλ Βαλλς Greek Ministraro unua de Manuel Valls Esperanto Gobierno Valls Spanish Gouvernement Manuel Valls (1) French ממשלת מנואל ואלס HE Governo Valls I Italian 第1次マニュエル・ヴァルス内閣 Japanese
First Valls government | |
|---|---|
 37th Government of France | |
 Manuel Valls | |
| Date formed | 31 March 2014 |
| Date dissolved | 25 August 2014 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | François Hollande |
| Head of government | Manuel Valls |
| No. of ministers | 16 |
| Member parties | Socialist Party Radical Party of the Left Walwari |
| Status in legislature | Majority 307 / 577 (53%) |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Second Ayrault government |
| Successor | Second Valls government |
The First Valls government was the thirty-seventh government in the Fifth Republic of France. It was led by Manuel Valls, who was appointed prime minister of France on 31 March 2014. It was composed of 15 ministers from the Socialist Party (PS) and two from the Radical Party of the Left (PRG).[1] It was the third cabinet declared by President Hollande and replaced the second Ayrault Cabinet. It was established following the 2014 French municipal elections.
Europe Ecology – The Greens, who had been part of the Ayrault Cabinet, chose not to be part of the cabinet. The Socialist Party, with 290 representatives, and the Radical Party of the Left, with 16 representatives, together have 306 of the 577 representatives in the National Assembly.[2]
The cabinet was smaller than the preceding Ayrault Cabinet, and one of the smallest of the fifth republic,[3] having 16 full ministers as opposed to the 20 in the Ayrault Cabinet.[4]
Valls came from the position as minister of the interior, and 14 other ministers also held positions as ministers or junior ministers in the outgoing Ayrault Cabinet. Nine ministers kept the same ministry (with some change in portfolio for some), including Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Two ministers had not been part of the Ayrault Cabinet: Ségolène Royal, who had previously been a minister in the Bérégovoy Cabinet and junior minister in the Jospin Cabinet, and François Rebsamen, who came from the position as leader of the Socialist Party group in the French Senate was included in a cabinet for the first time, becoming minister of labour.
Apart from the prime minister, the cabinet had full gender parity, with eight female and eight male ministers.
The average age of government ministers at the time of appointment was 54,[5] with Laurent Fabius at 67 being the oldest and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem at 36 being the youngest.[6]
On 9 April 2014, fourteen secretaries of states were appointed. They included Fleur Pellerin, who was deputy minister in Ayrault's cabinet, and First Secretary of the French Socialist Party Harlem Désir who both became secretaries to the foreign minister.[7]
Born in Barcelona and becoming a French national in 1982, aged 19, Valls is the first French prime minister during the Fifth Republic who was not born a French citizen.[8]
- ^ Gouvernement Valls : tous les ministres, tous les postes (in French) Le Point. Retrieved 2 April 2014
- ^ Emmanuel Berretta (2 April 2014)Remaniement : Manuel Valls a-t-il une majorité à l'Assemblée ? (in French) Le Point. Retrieved 7 April 2014
- ^ Bastien Bonnefous et al (2 April 2014) Le nouveau gouvernement conforte les poids lourds hollandais (in French) Le Monde. Retrieved 7 March 2014
- ^ Pallaver, Noé, Barra (2 April 2014) Qui sont les seize ministres du gouvernement de Manuel Valls ? (in French) La Voix du Nord
- ^ Geoffroy Clavel, "Gouvernement Valls: une équipe 'de combat' socialiste signée Hollande", (in French) Huffington Post, 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Gouvernement Valls : quel est le parcours des 16 ministres ?", (in French) Sud-Ouest, 2 April 2014
- ^ "Nos portraits des 14 secrétaires d'Etat", (in French) Le Monde, 9 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014
- ^ AFP (2 April 2014) Manuel Valls, premier Premier ministre à ne pas être né français (in French) Libération.
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