DAKAR, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The Mauritanian government resigned on Thursday after deputies in parliament had filed to hold a non-confidence vote against it, the state news agency AIM said.

    The report reaching here said Mauritanian Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf has submitted the resignation of his government to President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and the president has accepted it.

    The resignation came after 39 legislators from the opposition submitted to the parliament a non-confidence motion against the government on June 30.

    The government was appointed only two months ago.

    Just back from the African Union summit in Egypt, President Abdallahi said on Wednesday if the National Assembly approved the non-confidence motion against the government, he would dissolve the parliament.

    According to news reaching here from Mauritania's capital of Nouakchott, in a speech broadcast nationwide, Abdallahi had said some lawmakers began to find fault with the government before it was able to present its new policies to the parliament.

    The president said he was not only astonished by such move of the lawmakers but also doubted their true purpose. He also urged the lawmakers submitting the non-confidence motion to reconsider their position.

    While acknowledging that the parliamentarians had the right to bring down the government, Abdallahi questioned the "true objectives" behind the latest push against the government, saying that lawmakers "were not sincere in their approach." He wondered how the National Assembly could initiate such a measure against a government which, "has not yet submitted its program of actions to the parliament."

    The president, however, also took time to reiterate his confidence in "senior officers," some of who are suspected of quietly supporting the lawmakers who have filed the censure motion.

    The motion would get through the 95-member parliament once 48 lawmakers voted in favor of it.

    On June 28, Ahmed Ould Daddah, president of the democratic opposition, defended the censure motion as both "legal and democratic."

    The vote had also won the support of Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Lemmatt, chairman of the parliamentary group of the Rally of Democratic Forces, who last Sunday said that his "colleagues would vote in favor."

    The sponsors of the motion, according to keen observers, have already attained an absolute majority.