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.
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."
On Sunday, leftist Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg called for new economic policies and questioned what he called Germany's "obsession" with budgetary rigour.
"A major change in our economy policy,'' was what Montebourg had said was needed from the president and prime minister.
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.
"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.
Source: Aljazeera
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