One speculation is that the president will appoint an interim government to replace Mr Chaudhry's.
"Ousting Qaddafi will prove more straight-forward than getting a representative and transparent government to replace him," he said.
Walter Veltroni, the outgoing deputy prime minister, leaves government to replace Mr D'Alema at the helm of the DS.
Mr Monti faces his sternest test since he formed his technocratic government to replace Silvio Berlusconi's in November.
It will take years of enlightened government to replace feudalism with institutions that can deliver economic development and justice.
Creative Scotland was set up in 2010 by the Scottish government to replace the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.
Some of the doctors say their arrests represented a purge of Shiites, allowing the government to replace them with Sunni loyalists.
Reformers also devised new forms of city government to replace the old mayor city-council arrangemayor city-counciled to be so susceptible to corrupt influences.
No, says Mr Louie: "Natives hate the Indian Act, but at the same time, do you trust government to replace it?" he asks.
When Mao finally took control of China, in 1949, many expected the government to replace characters with Latin letters, as Vietnam had done earlier in the century.
In Madagascar, the United Nations Development Programme tried to persuade the government to replace DDT with Propoxur, a less effective pesticide.
