Rehabilitating Cabinet: An Increase in Minister’s Congregation Members

anwarAt 11 a.m. this morning, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim made the announcement of the cabinet reshuffle at his office. He then went to the ceremony to award the letters of appointment, take the oath of office and allegiance, and administer the Federal Minister’s oath of secrecy, which is scheduled to start at 2.30 p.m.

Anwar also had time to share about the new cabinet members, which totaled 60 people, but the total number of cabinet members is still low when compared to the 70 members of the cabinet during the previous administration.

Thus, there are five new ministers who were appointed as members of the new ministerial congregation, namely, Gobind Singh Deo, Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad, Datuk Seri Johari Ghani, Steven Sim, and Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan. Meanwhile, the minister who was dropped from the cabinet was YB Sivakumar a/l Varathraju.

The total number of ministers increased from 28 to 31.

Meanwhile, the five new deputy ministers are Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad, M Kulasegaran, Dato Ramanan, Wong Kah Woh, and Dr. Zulkifli Hassan, who replaced two deputy ministers who were dropped, namely, Ramkarpal Singh and Datuk Siti Aminah Aching.

Thus, the total number of deputy ministers increased from 27 to less than 29 people.

Perdana Putra Putrajaya

The following is a list of the names and positions of the new congregation members for the 2024 cabinet members:

Prime Minister and Minister of Finance: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Finance Minister II: Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan

Deputy Minister of Finance: YB Lim Hui Ying

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural and Regional Development: Dato’ Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Bin Hamidi

Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development: YB Datuk Hajah Rubiah Wang

Deputy Prime Minister II and Minister of Energy Transition and Public Utilities: Dato’ Sri Fadhilah Yusof

Deputy Minister of Energy Transition and Public Utilities: YB Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir

Foreign Minister: Dato’ Seri Mohamad Hassan

Minister of Communications: YB Fahmi Fadzil

Deputy Minister of Communications: YB Teo Nie Ching

Minister of Higher Education: Dato Seri Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir

Digital Minister: YB Gobind Singh Deo

Health Minister: Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad

Minister in JPM (Federal Territory): YB Dr. Zaliha Mustafa

Minister of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living: Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali

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