PARIS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- France's Socialist government on Monday announced resignation, a traditional procedure after the legislative election, according to a French Presidency statement.
"According to the republican tradition in the wake of parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has presented today the Government's resignation to the President of the Republic, who accepted it," the statement said.
President Francois Hollande in the statement immediately re-appointed Ayrault as French prime minister and asked him to form a new government.
The announcement came after Hollande's Socialist Party (PC) and its close allies won an absolute majority of 314 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, lower house of French Parliament.
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