France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced Tuesday that he would stand down after next year’s European Parliament elections, in yet another blow to President Emmanuel Macron.
Collomb, one of Macron’s most loyal ministers and a heavyweight in his cabinet, told news magazine L’Express that he would quit the ministry to run for his old job as mayor of Lyon in eastern France in 2020.
The announcement comes just three weeks after Macron’s popular environment minister Nicolas Hulot quit and as the president’s approval ratings have plummeted.
“The local elections are still far away — I will run in Lyon if I don’t get diagnosed as seriously ill anytime before that,” Collomb joked.
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