Peru's government said on Saturday it will accept the resignation of Interior Minister Pilar Mazzetti, whose purchase of police vehicles was questioned by opposition and ruling-party politicians, Reuters reported. Mazzetti will be the first cabinet minister under center-left President Alan Garcia to step down since he took office for a second time in July 2006. "Along with the president, we have decided to accept the resignation of Minister Mazzetti and we will formalize this tomorrow, possibly," Peruvian Premier Jorge del Castillo told local radio station RPP. Mazzetti, a political independent who served as health minister under former President Alejandro Toledo, was criticized for supposed irregularities in the purchase of 469 vehicles for the national police force.