11.   Majali, a physician, has held several ministerial portfolios, including health and education in previous governments.

12.   Majali, a physician, has held several ministerial portfolios in previous governments, including health and education.

13.   Members of the cabinet should also sit in the chambers and answer questions on behalf of the executive on their ministerial portfolios.

14.   The Christian Democrats and Socialists, each split in Dutch- and French-speaking parties, continued meeting Sunday to divide the ministerial portfolios among the four.

15.   The president agreed to a plan under which Chubais and other deputy prime ministers would give up their ministerial portfolios but keep their senior posts as deputy premiers.

16.   The Smallholders will have four ministerial portfolios, including the Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development that will be led by party head Jozsef Torgyan.

17.   Then interior minister Abdollah Nouri was impeached and lost his ministerial portfolio.

18.   Then interior minister Abdollah Nouri lost his ministerial portfolio.

19.   Those who believe they have sufficient clout and fame want to be on a party list so they can take ministerial portfolios.

20.   Under the plan devised by the Kremlin, Chubais and other deputy prime ministers are giving up their ministerial portfolios but keeping their senior posts as deputy premiers.