Ammon News -

The first cabinet reshuffle under Prime Minister Dr. Jaafar Hassan, conducted on Wednesday nearly a year after his government was formed, kept 10 ministers from the previous government of former Prime Minister Dr. Bisher Khasawneh, while four ministers who had served under Khasawneh were removed.


* The remaining members of the Khasawneh government:

- Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates

- Raed Abu Al-Saud, Minister of Water and Irrigation

- Maher Abu Al-Saman, Minister of Public Works and Housing

- Saleh Al-Kharabsheh, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources

- Azmi Mahafzah, Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research

- Mohammad Al-Khalayleh, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Holy Places

- Mazen Al-Faraya, Minister of Interior

- Wafa Bani Mustafa, Minister of Social Development

- Nancy Namroqa, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

- Zeina Toukan, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation

* Ministers who were in Khasawneh government and left in Hassan's first reshuffle:

- Khaled Al-Hunaifat, Minister of Agriculture - left

- Firas Al-Hawari, Minister of Health - left

- Muawiya Al-Radaydeh, Minister of Environment - left

- Wissam Al-Tahtamouni, Minister of Transport - left