Remember Zaid Ibrahim, the conscience of Umno?
Remember how he was dropped as a candidate to defend his Kota Baru parliamentary seat?
He is now appointed as Minister in the PM’s Department!
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Zaid is appointed to take care of law-affairs and gives suggestions on how to reform the Malaysia’s judiciary system.
He will be sworn in a Senator while the SIL Khairy Jamaluddin is not among the candidates appointed into the cabinet.
Big names like S Samy Vellu, Ong Ka Ting and Rafidah Aziz are excluded, in the exception of Nazri Aziz who is now re-appointed as in the similar role as Zaid.
Besides, two candidates from Perlis Radzi Sheik Ahmad and Azmi Khalid, who were seen as making a move against the appointment of Shahidan Kassim as the Perlis MB, together with Jamaluddin Jarjis were dropped too.
Generally, ministries are cut down from 32 to 27, only 17 ministers have been retained and only five of those in their old portfolios.
MCA secretary general Ong ka Chuan is appointed as housing and local government minister replacing his brother and MCA president Ong Ka Ting, vice-president Ong Tee Keat is transport minister, Youth chief Liow Tiong Lai is appointed health minister while Women’s wing chief Ng Yen Yen is women, family and development minister.
MIC failed to retain its control over the works ministry and party’s secretary-general S Subramaniam has been appointed human resources minister.
As for Gerakan, its Wanita chief Tan Lian Hoe is made Deputy Information Minister.
Pak Lah has awaken? We shall see as the PM said he wasn’t under any pressure in picking the candidates.
But I’m pondering over the inclusion of Mat Tyson a.k.a Muhammad Muhammad Taib.
Why?
Click here to find the full list of 2008 cabinet.
Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Deputy Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz
Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim
Datuk Amirsham Abdul Aziz
Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department
Datuk Johari Baharom
Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim
Datuk K. Devamany
Datuk Hassan Malik
Finance
Minister – Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Second Finance Minister – Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop
Deputies – Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Datuk Kong Cho Ha
Defence
Minister – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
Deputy – Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop
Internal Security and Home Affairs
Minister – Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
Deputies – Datuk Chor Chee Heong, Senator Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh
Housing and Local Government
Minister -Datuk Ong Ka Chuan
Deputies – Datuk Robert Lau , Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin
Works Minister
Minister – Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamad
Deputy- Datuk Yong Khoon Seng
Energy, Water and Communications
Minister – Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor
Deputy- Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum
Agriculture and Agro-based Industry
Minister – Datuk Mustapa Mohamed
Deputy – Datin Paduka Rohani Abdul Karim
International Trade and Industry
Minister -Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputies- Loh Wei Keong, Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan
Foreign Affairs
Minister -Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim
Deputy- Tunku Azlan Abu Bakar
Education
Minister -Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein
Deputies -Datuk Wee Ka Siong, Datuk Razali Ismail
Higher Education
Minister – Datuk Khaled Nordin
Deputies – Khoo Kok Choong, Datuk Idris Harun
Transport
Datuk Ong Tee Keat
Deputy – Anifah Aman
Human Resources
Datuk S. Subramaniam
Deputy- Datuk Noraini Ahmad
Women, Family and Community Development
Minister-Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen
Deputy- Noriah Kasnon
National Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage
Minister- Datuk Shafie Apdal
Deputy-Datuk Teng Boon Soon
Science, Technology and Innovation
Minister- Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili
Deputy- Fadilah Yusof
Entrepreneurial and Cooperative Development
Minister – Datuk Noh Omar
Deputy- Datuk Saiffuddin Abdullah
Natural Resources and Environment
Minister – Datuk Douglas Unggah Embas
Deputy – Datuk Abu Ghapur Salleh
Rural and Regional Development
Minister – Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib
Deputy- Tan Sri Joseph Kurup
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs
Minister – Datuk Shahrir Samad
Deputy – Jelaing Mersat
Plantation Industries and Commodities
Minister – Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
Deputy- Senator A. Kohilan
Youth and Sports
Minister – Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaacob
Deputy – Wee Jack Seng
Health
Minister – Datuk Liow Tiong Lai
Deputy- Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad
Information
Minister – Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek
Deputy- Datuk Tan Lian Hoe
Tourism
Minister – Datuk Azalina Othman
Deputy – Datuk Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abu Taib
FT
Minister – Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique
Deputy- M. Saravanan
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a good news so far.. although i yet to understand why nazri is still there..
is that mike tyson i see back again?
I dont think it was a pretty cabinet…
Why we need so many ministers in the PM department?
Rotten to the core…AAB still has not listened to the rakyat….how long will this appointments last?…weeks? months?
3 words to describe new AAB’s cabinet…….bloody…..crap….line-up!!
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This is an interesting line. Have to give full credit to Pak Lah for the changes made in his new cabinet. Personally I always see change of any sorts to a good thing, and this has been a really positive one. I’m very optimistic that all the cabinet members will perform their duty handed to them well. Kudos Pak Lah!!!
[...] At least, he should have shown sincerity in reforming the judiciary system before the recent GE, not after the heaviest defeat suffered by BN by merely appointing Zaid Ibrahim as one of the Minister in Prime Minister Deparment to carry out the reform. [...]