But it was only a year ago, when Dutroux escaped briefly from custody, that ministerial heads rolled.
José Maria Barreda, a Socialist who heads the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha, has called for ministerial heads to roll.
But resignations also reflect and worsen weakness, because a government that acquiesces to calls for ministerial heads is perceived as too flimsy to resist them.
Mr Tusk wrong-footed the opposition earlier this week, which had been baying for ministerial heads and for the formation of a technocratic government to rule the country until next year's elections.On June 25th Mr Tusk (pictured during the vote) asked for a vote of confidence in his government.
It has formed a ministerial committee headed by Mr. Netanyahu aimed at starting economic projects in the West Bank.
In 1924, Firpo was attacked by the N. Y. Civic League, a ministerial group headed by the late Canon William S. Chase, of Bklyn.
In an apparent acknowledgement that the attack had gone too far, Maliki announced the appointment of a ministerial committee, headed by the Sunni deputy prime minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq, to investigate.
He rose through the ranks and eventually became the general manager and party secretary of China National Petroleum Corporation CNPCC) in 1998, the ministerial-level head of a state owned company.
In 1996, to better cater to the Sahrawis living in the occupied territory, the SADR government created a ministerial position headed by Mohamed Louali Hocene, known as the Ministry of the Occupied Territories.
Of 145 countries in the index, only four (Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Nicaragua) are more than halfway toward equality at the parliamentary, ministerial, and head-of-state levels of government.
