Mauritian President, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, will step down next week, the Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, said on Friday.
Jugnauth said Gurib-Fakim would resign after she was accused of using a credit card issued by an international Non-Governmental Organisation to buy clothes and jewellery.
The prime minister added that the president would resign after the March 12 celebration of the country’s 50th anniversary.
The prime minister, who did not comment on the row over credit card expenditure, had
previously said that everyone involved would shoulder his or her responsibility when asked about the issue by reporters.
Gurib-Fakim, a chemistry professor appointed to the largely ceremonial post in 2015 as the island nation’s first female president had denied any wrongdoing, saying she had refunded the money in question.
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