PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manuel Valls emerged on Friday as the possible standard bearer of the ruling Socialists in France's presidential election following Francois Hollande's shock announcement that he would not seek a second term.
A snap opinion poll, conducted on Thursday night after Hollande' statement, showed that Socialist voters and French voters as a whole wanted to see Valls win the party ticket to run for president next spring.
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