11.   The new cabinet includes nine ministers who served in the previous cabinet.

12.   UDF leader and premier designate Ivan Kostov has pledged to enact measures agreed with the IMF by the previous interim cabinet, which was appointed by the popular Stoyanov.

13.   With only four dissenting votes, parliament accepted his request to endorse his previous cabinet without any changes.

14.   Yannos Papantoniou, a veteran economist who was national economy minister in the previous cabinet, retained his post and also took over the finance ministry from Alekos Papadopoulos.

15.   In the previous cabinet, there was a second minister only for the foreign affairs portfolio.

16.   Dozens of members of the two coalition parties defected to form the Democratic Party in the final days of the previous Hashimoto cabinet just before the election.

17.   Toepfer was environment minister in the previous cabinet.

18.   Klima has distanced himself from the previous SPOe cabinet, retaining only Caspar Einem, formerly interior minister, whom he has made culture minister.

19.   Klima has distanced himself from the previous SPOe cabinet, retaining only Caspar Einem, formerly interior minister, whom he has made transport and science minister.

20.   The job of minister of state for defense affairs, which was held by Sheikh Hamad ibn Abdallah al-Thani in the previous cabinet, was eliminated.