PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd October, 2018) French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the country's Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, local media reported on Wednesday.
On Monday, media reported that Collomb tendered his resignation to the French president, who, however, refused to accept it.
According to the BFMTV broadcaster, Macron eventually agreed to allow the interior minister to step down and instructed the country's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to find a temporary replacement for the outgoing minister pending the appointment of the new head of the Interior Ministry.
In mid-September, Collomb, who served as the mayor of Lyon in 2001-2017, said that he might run in the city's mayoral election in 2020. He also stated that in this regard he might leave the ministerial post as early as in 2019.
