Manuel Valls

Manuel Valls is one of the more restless political figures I've followed. A Spanish-born Frenchman who rose to Prime Minister under Hollande, then left to run for mayor of Barcelona, then circled back into French government, he doesn't fit any tidy national box. I read him as a centrist hardliner, tough on security, impatient with his own party's left, which won him admirers and a lot of enemies. The shelf of honours from France, Spain, and West Africa tells me he was taken seriously across borders. Whether you call that conviction or opportunism probably depends on which of his many chapters you watched.

Name (English)

Manuel Valls

Name (Japanese)

マニュエル・ヴァルス

Reading

まにゅえる・ゔぁるす

Born

August 13, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Hort, Barcelona Province, Spain

Height

2 cm

Occupation

politician / professions libérales et assimilés

University

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Awards & achievements

• Order of Merit of Ivory Coast
• 2014 Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
• Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
• 2015 Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
• 2013 Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
• 2011 Commander of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Senegal
• 2013 Knight of the National Order of the Lion

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://manuelvalls2019.barcelona
• Xhttps://x.com/manuelvalls
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Barcelona Province
• politician
• professions libérales et assimilés

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.