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French ex-PM Valls wants to join Macron’s movement

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN are expected to be an- Jean-Paul Delevoye, head to Macron before the presi- Christophe Cambadelis
Associated Press nounced Thursday and Ma- of the Republic on the dential election. stressed Tuesday that it is
PARIS (AP) — Manuel Valls, cron himself will be sworn in Move panel assessing the Hamon came in a distant “impossible” to remain a
the former French prime on Sunday. candidates. “But support fifth in the first round of Socialist party member and
minister, said Tuesday he Valls told RTL radio that doesn’t necessarily trans- France’s presidential elec- run for office under the Re-
wants to turn his back on France’s Socialist party late into a nomination. tion, capturing just over 6 public on the Move ban-
the Socialists and run under “is dead and behind us” (Vall’s) voice is not insig- percent of the vote, the ner.
President-elect Emmanu- and said he wants to join nificant, but his candidacy Socialist Party’s worst result “If some (people) want to
el Macron’s new political Macron’s Republic on the will be treated like anyone since 1969. leave and go apart, they
movement. It’s not clear, Move to run for a seat in else’s.” The poor result has trig- can do so and let us work,”
however, if he will be able parliament. He’s hoping to Valls, a center-leaning poli- gered a fierce debate he said.
to do so. run in the Essonne depart- tician in favor of relaxing within the Socialists about Valls said Macron’s victory
All 577 seats in France’s ment, his fiefdom south of France’s tight labor pro- whether to stick with Ham- Sunday over far-right lead-
lower chamber are up for Paris, but Republic on the tections, could not even on’s left-wing platform or er Marine Le Pen it was a
grabs in the country’s two- Move officials said his nomi- win his own Socialist party’s to switch back to the more blow to populism across Eu-
part June 11 and June 18 nation won’t be automatic. presidential primary, los- centrist views of Valls and rope that gave a “terrific”
parliamentary election. “All support for the presi- ing to Benoit Hamon. After his allies. image of France to coun-
Macron’s 577 candidates dent is welcome,” said that, he threw his support Socialist Party official Jean- tries abroad. q

Putin calls for international unity on overcast Victory Day

By JIM HEINTZ forced the cancellation
Associated Press of the traditional dramatic
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian conclusion to the parade
President Vladimir Putin on — the roaring flyover by
Tuesday told the annual scores of military aircraft.
Victory Day parade on The Red Square parade is
Red Square that the hor- a highly ritualized display,
rors of World War II dem- and marked changes in its
onstrate the necessity of order are unusual.
countries working together The Defense Ministry had
to prevent war. said cloud-seeding planes
Russia celebrates the 1945 would be deployed to
defeat of Nazi Germany disperse the overcast
every May 9 to honor the skies. That has been done
8 million Red Army soldiers previously when poor
who fought and died for weather threatened. It
their country. wasn’t immediately clear
“This monstrous tragedy if the planes had been de-
was not able to be pre- ployed.
vented primarily because Parades also were held
of the connivance of the across Russia’s sprawling
criminal ideology of racial expanse as well as in the
superiority and due to the Russia-annexed Crimea
lack of unity among the Peninsula, but the Red
world’s leading nations,” Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian Square procession is the
Putin said. army Gen. Oleg Salyukov, right, walk along the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade centerpiece of Russia’s ob-
“To effectively combat to celebrate 72 years since the end of WWII and the defeat of Nazi Germany, in Moscow, Russia, servances.
terrorism, extremism, neo- on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. About 10,000 soldiers par-
Nazism and other threats, (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool photo via AP) ticipated, standing rigidly
consolidation of the entire as Defense Minister Ser-
international community is ed to have lost 26 million nation’s immense suffering portant secular holiday. gei Shoigu reviewed them
necessary,” he said. people in the war, includ- contributes to Victory Day’s Thick clouds over Moscow from an open-top limou-
The Soviet Union is estimat- ing the 8 million soldiers. The status as Russia’s most im- on Tuesday, however, sine. q

Niece of France’s Le Pen held as rising star quits politics

PARIS (AP) — The niece of two lawmakers in the out- ed to spend more time with tional Front co-founder conservative than Marine
defeated far-right French going lower house of par- her young daughter and Jean-Marie Le Pen, is also Le Pen. In her vision, the
presidential candidate liament affiliated with the been interested in working said to be stepping down ideological base of the
Marine Le Pen announced party. in civil society “for some from a regional council National Front should be
Tuesday that she’s leaving Marechal-Le Pen, 27, said time” because she “loves where she leads the main pro-business, conservative,
political life, at least tempo- in a letter published in a re- the world of business.” opposition group. On sev- Catholic and anchored in
rarily, citing “personal and gional newspaper that she “I think the era of politicians eral occasions, Marechal- the defense of traditional
political reasons.” won’t run for re-election disconnected from the Le Pen found herself in po- values such as family.In her
Marion Marechal-Le Pen in June to represent her real with decades of elec- litical conflicts with her aunt letter, she suggested she
had been seen as a rising southeast Vaucluse district. tive offices behind them is and in disagreement with would return to political life
star of the nationalist and The younger Le Pen called gone,” she added.. the policies of her party. one day. “I do not give up
anti-immigration National her decision a “heart- Marechal-Le Pen, who is Marechal-Le Pen is regard- political fighting definitive-
Front party. She is one of break.” She said she want- the granddaughter of Na- ed as more traditional and ly,” she said.q