Luxembourg's prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker intends to give up the finance portfolio he also holds in government, and therefore the chair of the Eurogroup, a newspaper reported on Thursday. If voters re-elect Juncker's Christian Social People's Party (CSV) on Sunday 'the post of finance minister will pass from Jean-Claude Juncker to (Treasury and Budget Minister) Luc Frieden,' the Luxemburger Wort daily reported. Juncker made the announcement at an electoral rally in Luxembourg town on Wednesday. The Luxembourg prime minister, 54, was handed a third term as chairman of the 16-nation Eurogroup, an informal grouping of finance ministers from the 16 nations which share the euro currency, in September 2008. Giving up the national finance ministry would also mean giving up the Eurogroup role he has held since 2005. Juncker's spokesman Guy Schuller refused to comment on the report, saying it was not his role as 'it is the candidate Jean-Claude Juncker who will comment.' However a CSV official confirmed that Juncker expressed the wish to give up the finance role in comments he made late Wednesday. His eurozone counterparts last year renewed his mandate in principle until the end of 2010. However, German business newspaper Handelsblatt last week reported that he wanted to step aside early due to frustration over recurring tensions with France and Germany. The two eurozone heavyweights both lobbied for Luxembourg to be included on an international blacklist of tax havens due to its banking secrecy rules. Paris has also accused him of reacting slowly to the financial crisis. Juncker has long been mooted as a possible candidate to become the first EU president, a post which is foreseen by the bloc's Lisbon treaty, which is still in the process of being ratified. However, his name has been mentioned much less often as a possible candidate since the financial crisis broke out, with former British prime minister Tony Blair's name getting much more attention. 