But he said the town benefits from having long-serving officials with "institutional memory".
The generational change at the top may soon be reflected at other levels, allowing the gentle removal of long-serving officials in favour of fresher blood.
Instead, Mr. Ahmadinejad is increasingly trying to portray himself as a man of the people whose policies are obstructed by long-serving officials with selfish interests.
Joseph Katenga, the government's forest advisor and one of the few long-serving officials at the ministry, admitted being torn by competing forces.
But about half of the city's top education officials have left since then, including many of the long-serving officials who created the architecture of the system that Ms. Black must run.
And with panic and confusion taking hold in high places, with long-serving officials and military commanders rushing to defect, his power seemed close to crumbling before this tidal wave of pure, unbridled "people's power".
Before that she was a long-serving union official with Unite and its predecessor the TGWU.
Mr. Patang, who does not have the sort of deep political or ethnic power base that ministers often possess, is seen as a competent, long-serving police official and someone whom Mr. Karzai can control.
In the third and final round of voting, Tedros defeated David Nabarro, a long-serving WHO official supported by the U.K. The other finalist was Sania Nishtar of Pakistan, who had pledged to serve only a single five-year term.
The officials said Karzai aides had informed Western officials that a powerful Karzai loyalist who has faced accusations of corruption and human rights abuses, Asadullah Khalid, was in line to take over the country's main intelligence agency, and that a long-serving police official, Ghulam Mujtaba Patang, would lead the Interior Ministry.
For long-serving EU officials, the power to reject the budget of the third-largest economy of the eurozone makes a lot of sense – until it actually has to be used.
