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Former French PM wants to be mayor of Barcelona
By EUobserver
Former French prime minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday announced his candidacy as the Spanish centre-right anti-independence party Ciudadanos' candidate to become mayor of Barcelona. Valls was prime minister between 2014 and 2016 for socialist president Francois Hollande. He was born in Barcelona and has French and Spanish citizenship.The election will be held on 26 May 2019.