Valls’s Last Chance to Stop Rebel Threat to His French Campaign

Valls’s Last Chance to Stop Rebel Threat to His French Campaign

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls has one last chance to save his French presidential bid on Wednesday night when he tackles the party dissident set to claim the Socialist nomination in a televised debate.

Valls intends to hammer away at 49-year-old Benoit Hamon’s proposal for a universal basic income as he seeks to turn around a five-point deficit in Sunday’s run-off for the nomination. Hamon resigned from Valls’s government in 2014, claiming it had abandoned Socialist principles. Valls, 54, used an interview with France Info radio Tuesday to paint his rival’s platform as too leftist and unrealistic.

“Voters have a clear […]

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