1.   On the right, victory seems so close that there has already been infighting over future seats in parliament and ministerial portfolios.

2.   Several coalition partners who hold important ministerial portfolios have dug in their heels.

3.   A number of key ministerial portfolios are also under his supervision in the form of ministries-delegate.

4.   He is a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and has held ministerial portfolios including communications, economics and transportation.

5.   The country settled into a ritual of revolving-door cabinets, where politics consisted of an exchange of ministerial portfolios without any real change in government.

6.   They could also be swayed by promises of ministerial portfolios, although such offers have less value than usual, given the difficulties any government would face.

7.   Among the ministerial portfolios expected to change are Justice, Trade, Industry, and Planning and Investment.

8.   And for the first time, an ex-Taureg rebel was given a ministerial portfolio.

9.   Beyond that he wants to cast influence over, and pull the strings of, members who take ministerial portfolios.

10.   BRITISH secretary of state Robin Cook will have two important ministerial portfolios when he visits Hong Kong and the mainland next month.