Since elections last year there have been months of bickering over the cabinet's composition.
The latest cabinet, whose composition has been leaked to the Palestinian press, makes minimal concessions to the reformist demands of his lawmakers.
Under Mr Fukuda, foreign policy was tilted towards China; Mr Aso is likely to be a bit more US-centric.It would be unwise to read too much into this aspect of the cabinet's composition, however.
Nonetheless, assuming that the LDP survives the election as the party of government an increasingly big "if then the current cabinet's composition could give some indication of the next administration's priorities.Spend, spend, spend?The same applies to economic and fiscal policy.
The Brotherhood's political arm - the Islamic Action Front (IAF) - said the cabinet's composition is not as important as the implementation of far-reaching change.
The three choices definitely broaden the new cabinet's ethnic composition.
During the Bonn negotiations that led to the creation of the six-month interim administration in December, he walked out to protest against what he saw as a Tajik hijacking of power.Many Pushtuns were hoping that the loya jirga, the grand council that nominated a new government in June, would produce a rebalancing of the cabinet's ethnic composition.
When the gallery said no to all of them, Rauschenberg, ever the trouble-maker, decided to sneak them in anyway by incorporating a work by each into his own composition, a cabinet-shaped construction with two hinged doors of different sizes.
One indication of Mr. Qurei's intentions is likely to be the composition of his cabinet.
It had to be forced through parliament, with deputies called upon to vote on the composition of the cabinet as whole rather than individual ministers.
