Overview
- Speaking on Radio J, the former prime minister described Emmanuel Macron’s second mandate as a “naufrage” and warned of a democratic and regime crisis.
- Valls voiced anger over his removal from the Ministry of Overseas after less than a year, saying he found the decision difficult to understand.
- He was replaced in the reshuffle by Horizons lawmaker Naïma Moutchou in a government led by Sébastien Lecornu.
- Valls suggested his success mediating in New Caledonia, including the July Bougival agreement now described as weakened, may have displeased Macron and Lecornu.
- He also floated that his July intervention at the Council of Ministers over France’s recognition of the Palestinian state could have counted against him.