(VOVworld) – France’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has announced a new cabinet with few changes, after replacing Manuel Valls, who will begin his candidacy for the 2017 Presidential race. 

Newly-appointed Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (Source: AFP/VNA)

France’s Ministers will be essentially until the end of Cazeneuve’s term in June, 2017.  Bruno Le Roux, a member of Parliament who heads the Socialist group in the lower house, will be the new Minister of the Interior. André Vallini, Secretary of State for Territory Planning and Development was appointed Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament. Jean-Marie le Guen will be the Secretary of State for Development and La Francophonie. The 53-year-old Cazenueve is one of the few Ministers who have been in President Hollande’s administration since his first term. He has been taking on the government’s most important tasks in a very rough period.