Awang Tengah to be DCM in new cabinet

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Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan

Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan

KUCHING: The state cabinet will be announced on Thursday after the seven-day mourning period is over, according to a reliable source.

Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg will have to reshuffle the cabinet line-up as he is expected to take over the Finance and Natural Resources ministries – posts previously held by the late Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem.

This would entail him vacating the Housing and Urbanisation as well as Tourism, Arts and Culture ministries under him, which would have to be filled.

There is no indication on how the new ministerial line-up would look like but it is almost certain that PBB senior vice-president and Second Minister of Resource Planning an Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan will be promoted to deputy chief minister to take over the post Abang Johari has vacated.

It is likely that some assistant ministers could be promoted to full ministers to take over the portfolios vacated by the new chief minister – triggering more changes in the cabinet.