cabinet shuffle
Government role changes
A cabinet shuffle is a reorganization of government ministers, typically by a prime minister or president reassigning portfolios among existing members or bringing in new faces.
The shuffle may signal policy shifts, reward loyalty, or respond to scandals: The prime minister announced a cabinet shuffle after the finance minister resigned.
Also called a cabinet reshuffle.
- reshuffleRearrange elements anew
- portfolioCollected works or assets
- senior ministerTop-level government official
- junior ministerLower-level government official
- ministerReligious leader or serve
prime minister · parliament · appointment · demotion · promotion · frontbench · front bench · backbench · back bench · government · politics · ousted · replaced · sworn in · ministry · deputy · shake-up · reassignment
- CabinetSecretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, finance minister, ministers
- appointmentsappointment, appointees, booking, nominations, nominees
- power shiftsregime change, coup d'etat, overthrow, abdication, inauguration
cabinet shufflegeneral election
Nationwide voting for office
election · popular vote · electoral mandate · referendum · plebiscite
cabinet shuffleregime change
Replacement of governing power
revolution · coup d'état · new administration · general election · electoral mandate
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