French Interior Minister Cazeneuve appointed prime minister

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Source: CNN

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has been appointed prime minister, the Elysee Palace said Tuesday, after Manuel Valls stepped down from the role to launch a presidential bid.

Valls, 54, announced Monday he would put himself in the running to become the Socialist Party candidate for next year's presidential poll and will have to go through primary elections to win the party nomination.

Cazeneuve, 53, is best known for overseeing the nation's security forces in response to a spate of terror attacks that hit the country, killing 229 people in two years. The deadliest were the Paris attacks last year that left 130 people dead.

Cazeneuve is a trained lawyer but has had a long political career. In 1991 he became a councilor in the Cabinet of Thierry de Beauc, then the secretary of state for international cultural relations, according to his biography on the Interior Ministry website.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/06/europe/france-prime-minister-cazeneuve/index.html

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This guy's a cipher to me. Also, the French Prime Minister is less powerful than PM's in many other countries.

[kebob]

1. Right

In most European countries, we see a titular head of state (president, king, queen, etc.), but the Head of Government (prime minister, chancellor) wields the real power. Not so with France, where the Presidency really is the top Job.