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French President Accepts Interior Minister's Resignation - Reports

© AFP 2023 / Lionel BONAVENTUREMayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb waits for French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron prior to the unveil of his full programme eight weeks from election day, on March 2, 2017 in Paris.
Mayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb waits for French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron prior to the unveil of his full programme eight weeks from election day, on March 2, 2017 in Paris. - Sputnik International
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PARIS (Sputnik) - French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the country's Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, the BFMTV broadcaster reported on Wednesday.

Earlier, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb submitted his resignation letter to President Emmanuel Macron, but French President refused to let Collomb step down. According to the Le Figaro, Collomb didn't want Interior Ministry to be destabilized by his decision to present his candidacy at the municipal election in the city of Lyon next summer.

READ MORE: Professor on French Interior Minister's Resignation: 'It's Perfectly Logical'

In this image taken from video, a man identified as Alexandre Benalla, right, a security chief to French President Emmanuel Macron, confronting a student during a May Day demonstration in Paris, May 1, 2018 - Sputnik International
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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.

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