06 December 2016•Update: 06 December 2016
PARIS
France's interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, was named as the country's new premier on Tuesday following Manuel Valls’s resignation, President Francois Hollande's office confirmed.
"I have appointed Mr. Cazeneuve as Prime Minister and charged him with forming a new government," President Hollande said in a statement.
Valls quit after he announced his candidacy for France’s 2017 presidential election on Monday.
His move came after Hollande said last Thursday he would not run for a second term, becoming the first sitting president in modern French history not to do so.
The new prime minister is expected this afternoon at the National Assembly’s weekly government question session.
Cazeneuve steps into Valls' shoes for the second time; he replaced Valls as interior minister over two years ago when Hollande re-shuffled his government cabinet.
