First Valls Government
| First Valls Government | |
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| 37th government of France | |
| 31 March 2014 – 25 August 2014 | |
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| Date formed | 31 March 2014 |
| Date dissolved | 25 August 2014 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of government | Manuel Valls |
| Head of state | François Hollande |
| No. of ministers | 16 |
| Member parties |
Socialist Party Radical Party of the Left Walwari |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Ayrault Cabinet II |
| Successor | Valls Cabinet II |
The First Valls Government was the thirty-seventh Government of France. It was led by Manuel Valls, who was appointed Prime Minister of France on 31 March 2014. It was composed of 15 ministers from the Socialist Party (PS) and two from the Radical Party of the Left (PRG). It was the third cabinet declared by President Hollande and replaced the second Ayrault Cabinet. It was established following the French municipal elections, 2014.
Europe Ecology – The Greens, who had been part of the Ayrault Cabinet, chose not to be part of the cabinet. The Socialist Party, with 290 representatives, and the Radical Party of the Left, with 16 representatives, together have 306 of the 577 representatives in the National Assembly.
The cabinet was smaller than the preceding Ayrault Cabinet, and one of the smallest of the fifth republic; having 16 full ministers as opposed to the 20 in the Ayrault Cabinet.
Valls came from the position as Minister of the Interior, and 14 other ministers also held positions as ministers or junior ministers in the outgoing Ayrault Cabinet. Nine ministers kept the same ministry (with some change in portefolio for some), including Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Two ministers had not been part of the Ayrault Cabinet: Ségolène Royal, who had previously been Minister in the Bérégovoy Cabinet and junior Minister in the Jospin Cabinet, and François Rebsamen, who came from the position as leader of the Socialist Party group in the French Senate was included in a cabinet for the first time, becoming Minister of Labour.
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