BENOIT HAMON FRENCH LEFT CANDIDATE WINS SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

USPA NEWS - Benoit Hamon, first candidate of the presidential primaries for the French Socialist Party, won the elections, with 59% of the votes. He is the deputy of the Yvelines, 49 years old, and mayor of the city of Trappes. He was in front of Manuel Valls, 54, former Prime Minister of the government.

Benoit Hamon, second candidate of the presidential primaries for the French Socialist Party, won the elections, with 59% of the votes. He is the deputy of the Yvelines, 49 years old, and mayor of the city of Trappes. He was in front of Manuel Valls, 54, former Prime Minister of the government of Francois Hollande, President of the current French Republic.------------------- BENOIT HAMON GATHERED 58,88% OF THE VOTES AGAINST 41,13% FOR THE FORMER PM MANUEL VALLS Benoit Hamon gathered 58.88% of the votes against 41.13% for the former prime minister. In his victory speech, Benoît Hamon said that the left "raised his head" and announced that he would propose "to all the candidates of this primary" but also to the ecologist Yannick Jadot (Party of Ecologists) and the candidate of The "France Insoumise", Jean-Luc Mélenchon, (Extreme left) to build a government majority. Benoit Hamon also spoke of creating a "sixth republic" and that he was "going to rebuild a France of which can be proud of itself".------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benoît Hamon has established himself as a socialist candidate in the presidential election this Sunday thanks to a very large victory over Manuel Valls in the second round of the enlarged primary. The two candidates, whose programs are opposed within the same Socialist party, Benoit Hamon embodying the "real left" and Manuel Valls a left more right, namely socio-democrat, met at the headquarters of the Socialist Party and posed For a last photo souvenir shaking hands, in front of a group of journalists and photographers. Participation recorded a "sharp rise", according to the president of the High Primary Citizens' Authority, Thomas Clay, for the second round of this primary. According to figures available at 10 pm, the participation was more than 2 million people, out of 95% of the polling stations.