Reshuffle cards

Shinzo Abe planned to put Akira Amari into an important position in the Liberal Democratic Party. The discussion on cabinet reshuffle is approaching the end. ECNS

ECNS, October 1 According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency reports, the Japanese President Shinzo Abe entered the final discussion stage for cabinet reshuffle and high level personnel adjustment within the Party, which would be implemented on October 2.

Keiichi Ishii will serve successively as the Chairman of Policy Research Council in the Komeito Party. He served as the cabinet minister for the first time during the cabinet reshuffle in December 2015, and has been serving for about 3 years.

Voters were unable to choose between the incumbent and the opposition, because the same centrist parties were in office all the time. Government crises were merely an opportunity to reshuffle key cabinet positions or change the party faction of the prime minister.

Indeed, his new interior minister, Ghazi Kanaan, an old school hardliner, spearheaded a crackdown on reformers and Kurds in the past year or so. The reshuffle last November that brought Kanaan and others into the cabinet was seen to reflect Assad s preferences.

In his cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, five female ministers were appointed, but in the face of strong opposition from male MPs. More important, the appointments amounted to painting over the cracks Only 39 of the 480 members of the Japanese Diet s lower house, or 7.9 , are women.

Mexico was once accustomed to crises (even if it hasn t had one for 20 years) but they typically erupted at the end of a presidential term. Peña Nieto has four more years in office, and he is constrained by the political elite that brought him to power from implementing the drastic measures a cabinet reshuffle, criminal accountability for corruption and human rights violations, and radical judicial reforms that Mexico needs.

Fortunately, the recent threat of a downgrade of Inda s sovereign credit rating which would have made it difficult to finance the current account deficit has led to a government reshuffle and a shift in policies. The key political change was the appointment of a new finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whose selection by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi sent a strong positive signal to the Indian business community and to financial markets.