French president accepts PM's resignation

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5653407202598003616" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKEcSFHq6iM_QXdrLv86lZX5DMKqlIjWibyF3RB27PJE2WZHFRefUiunv5mtQsF0hiLlAlQ4aahFtxLUqTISwtRi6lCluTOQjOnmC-6w5JjpV3ttFvhX5npXQlT6H6e0gQ5ISuBm4kZU/s1600/201482583532916734_20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKEcSFHq6iM_QXdrLv86lZX5DMKqlIjWibyF3RB27PJE2WZHFRefUiunv5mtQsF0hiLlAlQ4aahFtxLUqTISwtRi6lCluTOQjOnmC-6w5JjpV3ttFvhX5npXQlT6H6e0gQ5ISuBm4kZU/s1600/201482583532916734_20.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>     In a statement issued on Monday, Hollande, left, asked Vall, right, to form a new government by Tuesday [Reuters]</i><br /><br />France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has resigned from his post as President Francois Hollande, a day after a much-criticised show of insubordination by the country's economy minister.<br /><br />In a statement issued on Monday, Hollande immediately asked Vall to form a new government by Tuesday in line with the "direction he [the president] has defined for our country."<br /><br />On Sunday, leftist Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg called for new economic policies and questioned what he called Germany's "obsession" with budgetary rigour.<br /><br />"A major change in our economy policy,'' was what Montebourg had said was needed from the president and prime minister.<br /><br />With those words, Montebourg drew the anger of the Socialist leadership, which said Montebourg's job was to support the government, not criticize it from within.<br /><br />"He's not there to start a debate but to put France back on the path of growth," Carlos Da Silva, the Socialist Party spokesman, told Le Figaro newspaper.<br /><br />Source: Aljazeera</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

French president accepts PM's resignation

     In a statement issued on Monday, Hollande, left, asked Vall, right, to form a new government by Tuesday [Reuters] France's Prim...

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