The continuity of day-to-day operations that Mr. Bloomberg worries about would best be achieved by allowing the deputy mayor to continue filling that post.
The Sunnis' sixth ministry, defence, does but filling that post has proved the biggest hurdle in the forming of the government.The Shias, especially their most powerful faction, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), are insisting that any candidate for the defence job should have no ties to the Baathists.
And to sweeten the package, he may offer Kadima two big jobs: the foreign ministry for Ms Livni and the defence ministry for her deputy, Shaul Mofaz, who filled that post under Ariel Sharon.The process of coalition-building will formally begin once the election results are officially published next week.
To many, Mr. Omelianuk seems an unlikely figure to fill that post, which he has held since 2004.
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, is somewhat better-known, partly because she is the first woman to fill that post.
In 1862 Phoebe Palmer became editor of the Guide to Holiness, which her husband had purchased, and she filled that post for the rest of her life.
The search to fill that post is just starting; it is being led by Brian J. Brooks, who joined Interpublic last week as executive vice president and chief human resources officer.
When elected suffragan bishop, or principal aide to the bishop, in 1979, Bishop Dennis was the second African-American to fill that post in the 200-year history of the diocese, the diocese said.
Huhne, who was the Lib Dems' home affairs spokesman, was widely expected to fill that post, with the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling cast aside, after his gaffe about B&B owners having the right to to turn away gay couples.
He filled that post on and off for a decade, with side trips to London and Vietnam, and departed, voluntarily, after several spirited run-ins with the President whom to this day he describes — off camera, at any rate — as "the old unindicted co-conspirator".
Pope John Paul II today named William Edward Lori, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Washington, to lead the Diocese of Bridgeport, filling the post that Edward M. Egan left in the spring to become archbishop of New York.
