French Prime Minister Manuel Valls gestures as he delivers a speech to announce his bid to become the Socialist presidential candidate in the 2017 presidential elections, at the town hall of Evry, south of Paris, on December 5, 2016. "I am a candidate for the presidency of the Republic," he said, announcing he would step down as prime minister on December 6, 2016 to contest the Socialist nomination in a January primary. / AFP PHOTO / Lionel BONAVENTURE