Change needs the support not only of the prime minister but of his cabinet.
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Speaking on behalf of the Senegalese Minister of Communication, Cabinet Director Souleyeman SY, spoke about the importance of the press as the fourth estate of the realm noting that the press plays and continues to play a crucial role in development.
Mr Ruane was considered the most likely Welsh member of the government to quit following the resignations of cabinet minister Robin Cook, Health Minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath and Home Office Minister John Denham.
It could be the sort of job that appeals to a former Police Minister, magistrate, ex-Cabinet Minister and member of the Commons home affairs committee.
The Tories have floated the idea of new Cabinet minister to deal with domestic security, but not along the lines of the US "Homelands" security chief Tom Ridge.
Some of his cabinet appointments reflect this change of focus: the new finance minister, Fukushiro Nukaga, and the new chief cabinet secretary, Kaoru Yosano, are supporters of fiscal restructuring and have better relations with the bureaucracy than their predecessors.
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It was sparked by the resignation of former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, who was jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice.
At certain points in the career of a cabinet minister, bad news can pile up all at once, like a bunch of overdue buses, and flatten a reputation that has taken years to establish.
The Lords was debating an interim report by a group of peers, chaired by Tory ex-cabinet minister Lord Hunt of Wirral, on "options for allowing members to leave the House of Lords permanently".
After his stint as prime minister from 1996 to 1999, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then Likud Party leader, but resigned in 2005, saying he disagreed with Sharon's plan to remove Israeli troops and settlements from Gaza.
The prime minister then held talks with the minister of economy, the minister in charge of the nuclear accident and the chief cabinet secretary, before making the announcement.
Mr Faymann is a former Vienna city councillor and was transport and infrastructure minister in the cabinet of his predecessor, Alfred Gusenbauer.
The conference comes a day after the wife of ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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Mr. Ochoa also points out that the plucking of a central bank chief as a cabinet minister underscores the erosion of Venezuela's institutions.
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Following all this the Vice -president and Minister of Defense, Mr. Ramon Carrizales resigned from the cabinet along with his wife Yubiri who was Minister of the Environment.
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But neither shadow justice minister Chris Bryant, a supporter of AV, nor Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper backed Mr Chope's proposal.
The average age of a full cabinet minister remains a little over 64 years, though the average age of a minister is now 58.
His problem is that it is an iron law of hoo-hahs that a cabinet minister who stirs up too many of them comes to be seen by his prime minister as a liability.
He is the nephew of the late Tory cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley and the brother-in-law of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson.
The First Minister reaffirmed his opposition to an increase in the number of members and said Cabinet colleagues are always available to attend Europe Council of Minister's meetings.
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Just a few days ago, British prime minister David Cameron shuffled his cabinet, moving Hunt from Minister of Culture to his new position in charge of health.
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Caroline Benn, the biographer, renowned educationalist and wife of former cabinet minister Tony Benn, has died in hospital after a long illness.
The trial of former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce over alleged speeding offences has been adjourned until January.
But General Musharraf plans to sit atop a mighty National Security Council comprising the service chiefs, the prime minister and some members of the cabinet.
In 1998 Tory MP David Prior - son of former cabinet minister James (now Lord) Prior - confessed he had smoked cannabis as a young man.
The Assembly then began an interactive panel on water, climate change and disasters, which was moderated by Jorge Jurado, National Secretary for Water, Minister and Presidential Cabinet Member of Ecuador.
Whereas, having been elected to the Senate as an independent technocrat in March 1985, I served as information minister of state in the first cabinet of Benazir Bhutto (1988-90) which was an elected government.
The new finance minister has held a number of cabinet posts, including the transport and education portfolios and is currently a member of the Lower House budget committee and was manager of Koizumi's campaign to head the LDP.
It would be unusual for a junior minister to be promoted to cabinet rank without a spell at minister of state level but these are unusual times.
As in 2010-11, it endorsed the level of savings reported by government and it also welcomed the lead provided by Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister in charge of the unit, and the "close links" with government departments.
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