MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th October, 2018) The resignation of French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb indicates that even the most loyal cabinet members are getting increasingly disappointed with President Emmanuel Macron's agenda and style of governance, France's Debout la France (France Arise) party member Sebastien Cochard told Sputnik.
The French president accepted minister's resignation earlier on Wednesday. Collomb's decision to step down followed resignation of Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot, who claimed that the influence of industrial lobbyists prevented the government from achieving its declared environmental policy goals.
"Gerard Collomb had been one of the earliest and most faithful supporters of Macron, as early as the time Macron was only considering to launch his presidential bid. Therefore Collomb resignation shows ... that even the most faithful are now disappointed by Macron, disappointed by his policy agenda, by his personal style and way of governing," Cochard said.
According to Cochard, Macron has become a victim of "hybris" or excessive pride, which has resulted in the situation when even the most faithful "cannot wait to leave" the government.
"It shows as well that the one who was calling himself 'the master of the clocks' one year ago, Macron, does not control anything anymore. He forcefully asked Collomb not to resign and Collomb defied him by announcing his resignation through a newspaper interview. A bit like Hulot announcing his resignation through a radio interview. Before the president knew about it," he argued.
Cochard claimed that Macron had been initially "put in place by the globalist lobbies," and now the French people allegedly got to realize that "they had been deceived and manipulated one year ago at the elections."
Commenting on Collomb's resignation, French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said it was the minister's personal choice and had nothing to do with a political crisis
Collomb, who served as the mayor of Lyon in 2001-2017, said in mid-September 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.
