French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, the most progressive and rebellious voice of the socialist government, resigned on Wednesday for its counter-terrorism policy differences with President Francois Hollande, who planned to withdraw the citizenship to those convicted of terrorism.
His opposition to this measure became clear in mid-December, a day before the present Government in the Cabinet, and since then its maintenance in office had been compromised.
The project was launched by President Hollande after the Jihadist attacks last November 13 killed in Paris and peripheral Saint Denis 130 people and injured 350, but Taubira not seen effective in fighting terrorism, and so He had exposed publicly.
"Sometimes resist is to stay and sometimes resist is starting," said Minister until today in his Twitter account, in its first reaction to his retirement, with the characteristic lyricism and power of his oratory.
Hours later, in an appearance before reporters, he admitted that up by a "major political disagreement" and warned that although "the terrorist threat that threatens (the country) is serious," I should not "grant any victory, or military or diplomatic, political, or symbolic. "
His resignation, which coincides with the filing of the constitutional review commission of the National Assembly laws, was accepted by the need for, according Hollande a "collective coherence" in the action of the Executive.