Egypt Keeps 8 Female Ministers in Madbouli’s New Cabinet

The Egyptian Parliament approved on Sunday morning a cabinet reshuffle, introducing 10 new ministers, four of which are females, in different roles while shaking up a number of ministries.

The newly appointed female ministers are Rania Al-Mashat for the International Cooperation Ministry, Nevin Jameh, for the Trade, Industry Ministry, Dr. Hala Al-Saeed for the Planning, and Economic Development Ministry and Nevin El-Kabbaj for the Social Solidarity Ministry.

This comes in addition to other four female ministers who are kept in their positions, including, Hala Zayed for the Health Ministry, Yasmine Fouad as minister of environment, Inas Abdel-Dayem remains as the minister of culture and Nabila Makram heads the Ministry of Immigration.

The newly-approved reshuffle also kept Moustafa Madbouli in office as prime minister, assigning him the responsibility for the investment and administrative reform affairs, in addition to changing 10 ministerial portfolios, including, investment, trade and industry, justice, agriculture, tourism, social solidarity, and parliamentary affairs.

The full list of the new ministers as follows:

Counselor Omar Marwan appointed as Minister of Justice

Khaled El-Anani, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities

Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation

Nevin Jameh, Minister of Trade, Industry

Alaa Fouad, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

Osama Heikal, Minister of Information

Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning, and Economic Development

Muhammad Manar, Minister of Civil Aviation

Nevin El-Kabbaj, Minister of Social Solidarity

Mohammed Al Qusair, Minister of Agriculture

A number of ministerial portfolios have been merged together in the coming cabinet reshuffle. The tourism and antiquities ministries was merged under one portfolio, meanwhile, the ministry of investment and international cooperation is separated into two portfolios.

The government previously received a vote of confidence from parliament in July 2018.

It is noteworthy that the ministerial reshuffle comes in pursuance of Article 174 of the constitution that stipulates that the “President shall hold the cabinet reshuffle in consultation with the Prime Minister and with the approval of the House of Representatives by an absolute majority of the attendees of the house and no less than one-third of its total members.”