(VOVworld) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced on Monday he was canceling a trip to Germany after his party's election loss.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls

The Socialists suffered a major defeat in Sunday’s elections, losing around half the local councils they controlled. Valls was due to take part in an annual meeting of French and German ministers in Berlin on Tuesday, before heading to Frankfurt to meet officials at the European Central Bank. But his office said he "has decided he should be present" for a meeting of Socialist MPs in Paris and question time in parliament.