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unusual facts about Minister without portfolio


Zimbabwe-Rhodesia

He formed a joint government with Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, who was a Minister without Portfolio.


Alan Robinson

Robinson supported Dennis Timbrell's unsuccessful bid to succeed Davis at the Progressive Conservative Party's January 1985 leadership convention, and was named a minister without portfolio and Chief Government Whip when Frank Miller became Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985.

Bert Lawrence

In 1969, Ontario Premier John Robarts brought Lawrence into the cabinet as minister without portfolio, and promoted him in 1970 to Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs.

Dov Yosef

After the government collapsed again over the issue of religious education in December 1952, Yosef was initially appointed Minister without Portfolio in the new government, before switching to the Development Ministry in June 1953.

John A. Robinson

He was a member of the Executive Council serving as colonial secretary from 1898 to 1900, as Minister of Posts and Telegraphs from 1916 to 1919 and as a minister without portfolio in 1924 and 1928.

Jordi Pujol i Soley

From 1977 to 1980, Pujol was Minister without portfolio in the Provisional government of Catalonia, presided by Josep Tarradellas.

Jules Guesde

In August 1914, Guesde was included in the national unity government of René Viviani as a Minister without Portfolio, and continued to serve in that role until the end of 1916.

Open list

In the 2003 elections Hilbrand Nawijn, the former minister of migration and integration was elected into parliament for the Pim Fortuyn List by preference votes even though he was the last candidate on the list.

Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft

When Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister in January 1957, Mancroft was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, a post he held until June the same year, and was then Minister without Portfolio from 1957 to 1958.


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Aćif Hadžiahmetović

This event was attended by Sulejman Ugljanin (Minister Without Portfolio of Serbia), Esad Džudžević (president of the Bosniak National Council) and Ahmedin Škrijelj (deputy mayor of Novi Pazar).

Arieh

Arieh Dulzin, Zionist activist who served as a Minister without Portfolio in Israel

Herbert Hyland

Appointed minister without portfolio in the minority Country Party government of Sir Albert Dunstan in June 1936, Hyland was promoted to various ministries, both in minority Country Party and in coalition cabinets, until the election of the Cain government in 1952 brought a temporary halt to the instability of Victorian politics.

Karachi Agreement

# Honourable Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani, Minister without Portfolio, Government of Pakistan.

Office for Kosovo and Metohia

Current director and minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohia is Aleksandar Vulin.

Peretz Naftali

In June 1952 he became Minister of Agriculture, a role he held until the 1955 elections, after which he reverted to being a Minister without Portfolio.

Waldemar Kraft

After the elections in 1953 he retired on 20 October 1953 from the State Government and was appointed on the same day as the Federal Minister without Portfolio under government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn.

Yosef Almogi

First elected to the Knesset in the 1955 elections, Almogi was made Minister without Portfolio after the 1961 elections, before taking over the roles of Minister of Housing and Minister of Development in October 1962.