Cazeneuve to head French cabinet as Valls bows out to campaign for presidency
Paris — French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday named Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to head his Socialist government until a new president is elected next May. The shake-up was prompted by the resignation as prime minister of Manuel Valls, who said on Monday that he hoped to run for president next year. Hollande said last week he would not seek a second term. Cazeneuve will be a caretaker prime minister ahead of the election, in which the far-right National Front party hopes to cause an upset similar to this year’s anti-establishment votes in Britain, the US and Italy. "The world has changed drastically in a matter of months ... with what happened in the US, Brexit and what has just happened in Italy," said Jean-Marie le Guen, minister for parliamentary affairs and an ally of Valls. "The extreme right is on the threshold of power. The right is more brutal than anything we’ve ever seen." On Sunday, an Italian referendum rejected constitutional reforms proposed by Prime Mi...
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