French Prime Minister Manuel Valls attends a news conference to announce that he is a candidate for January's Socialist presidential primary, as his wife Anne Gravoin (3rdL) looks on at the town hall in Evry, near Paris, France, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
EVRY, France (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared on Monday that he would seek the Socialist Party's nomination for next year's presidential election and said he was quitting the government to focus on campaigning.
Although opinion polls bill Valls as the favourite for the Socialists' ticket, they also forecast that neither he nor any other left-wing candidate will win the election, rather that conservative candidate Francois Fillon will beat far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in a run-off.
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