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But when the new government announced its cabinet, Macierewicz, one of Poland’s most extreme politicians, was named instead.
Owing to this base of support, Macierewicz is now the only cabinet official who can get away with not listening to Kaczynski.
Likewise, Correa has dispatched members of his cabinet to cut off public advertising in media outlets that he regards as adversaries, as if the use of public resources should be subject to calculations of personal costs and benefits.
Barring that, Vice President Mike Pence should have long ago invoked the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president whom a majority of the cabinet has deemed “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Wen’s cabinet, moreover, has failed to tame inflation, particularly for foodstuffs ranging from eggs to pork.
Since his London speech, Karzai has actively opposed efforts to attack official corruption, sought to appoint warlords to his cabinet, failed to promote civil society, and weakened processes aimed at increasing the representation of women in parliament.
Prayut has installed a rubber-stamp legislature, a “pro-reform” assembly, a constitution-drafting committee, and a cabinet led by none other than himself.
Meetings are held every three weeks and are attended by the president, the prime minister, and his entire cabinet, providing a forum in which tensions can be discussed and eased.
The most important outcome of these renewed contacts was the Pakistani cabinet’s decision, on November 2, to grant India most-favored-nation (MFN) status in trade relations.
But Bush was not among them; nor was Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, or any other prominent member of the US cabinet.
The US delegation, instead, was headed by Robert Zoellick, the US Trade Representative, who, despite being a member of the cabinet, lacked the political stature for which the occasion called.
His cabinet, in terms of its members’ positions on economic reform and international relations, is one that few observers believed he would be capable of assembling.
With five former generals in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, Brazil’s government will have more senior officers than at any time since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.
Tony Benn, a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970’s, later revealed that the “winter of discontent,” which ushered in a Tory government at the end of the decade, had been caused by the severe cuts in public expenditure demanded by the IMF: “Why did we have the winter of discontent?
Because in 1976, the IMF said to the cabinet, ‘You cut four billion pounds off your public expenditure or we will destroy the value of the pound sterling.’”
His preference for surrounding himself with people who have proved their loyalty has produced a White House staff that is widely considered, even by some cabinet officials, to be less than stellar.
Many Americans have perhaps grown desensitized to Trump’s off-the-wall tirades, having endured months of his late-night Twitter assaults on the press, his opponents and fellow Republicans, even his own cabinet members.
Moreover, Khatami wears the black turban that signifies his family’s descent from the prophet Mohammed, and served in both the parliament and cabinet until forced from power in 1992.
The discomfort she felt when, as a cabinet minister, she tried to broach the subject was real and all too apparent.
Any illusion that the populist coalition could be kept in check by moderate cabinet members has now been destroyed.
Just as someone became a carpenter or a trader in an earlier era merely through birth, members of India’s ruling caste now become leaders of parties, members of legislatures, and cabinet ministers solely because of their parentage.
It is time, therefore, for India to consider introducing a presidential system of government, which would reduce the scope for “horse trading” and allow the country’s leader to select competent people for cabinet positions.
Likewise, the reform-minded education and science minister, Dmitry Livanov, has been fired and replaced with the faceless apparatchik Olga Vasilyeva, a rare woman appointee known only for her Stalinist views (imagine the French president handing an important cabinet position to a mid-level official from the far-right National Front).
Little more than a year after the Panama Papers underscored the extent of tax evasion by the world’s wealthy, the release of the so-called Paradise Papers has again exposed those – including many in Trump’s cabinet – who have poured large amounts of money into offshore tax havens.
Primakov's resignation and the formation of a new cabinet restored the disrupted equilibrium despite all the talk about the roll of clans and their interests played in the decision and its evaluation as political gambling by the presidential circle.
Only in Britain could a cabinet minister from the same party that brought the country into the EU call for exiting it.
For example, the new Tunisian cabinet formed in August includes ex-union leaders, who can now shape broad economic policies, not just press for higher wages.
In 1997 government attempts to tame the power of the oligarchs redounded against the state as the cabinet was dissolved.
The country has not had a president since May; the parliament is not functioning; and the cabinet is practically powerless.
As a result, neither the US president nor cabinet officials are members of the legislature, and they cannot be removed from office by a legislative majority.
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