Manuel Valls, the authority for only strategy – The World

Le Monde | 14/04/2016 at 11:04 • Updated 04/14/2016 at 2:08 p.m. | By Bastien Bonnefous

Manuel Valls has an obsession: not to become the PS Francois Fillon. The Prime Minister wants to keep all costs to be in the political tumult left to not end up like his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy in Matignon of time and survive – unlike this one in 2012 – in the presidential election of 2017, whatever the outcome for the majority. Plummeting in the polls, worn by his two years Rue de Varenne, increasingly criticized even within the government for its method, and still a minority in the Socialist Party, Mr. Valls now seems condemned to not do that what he can do. Valls

that is to say cleaved by (almost) all the means within the left, transgress again by words and ideas, to strike minds and try to maintain a minimum political gain to prepare for the post-2017. But the head of government can not tackle all directions as the time when he was interior minister. Instead, on economic and social issues, he has to constantly align with the precarious balances decided by François Hollande. On the draft “law work,” Mr Valls had to retreat initially to the CFDT few weeks ago, and now in front of youth organizations.

After twenty-four months Matignon the Prime Minister has failed to impose the PS and the country’s social-liberal vision of the economy. His speech “ProBusiness” has never been able to convince the Socialists and even seems less and …