Speculation has focused on the minister of labor, health and social affairs, David Sergeenko, and the minister of interior affairs, Irakli Garibashvili, a close ally of Mr. Ivanishvili's.
No ministers have yet been appointed, but the three parties will together run the prime minister's office and the four key ministries of interior affairs, finance, information and justice.
Yemen's state news agency, Saba, reported that Mr. Saleh had visited members of his inner circle, including the deputy prime minister for interior affairs and the deputy prime minister for defense and homeland security, in two different Saudi hospitals.
"It is a question of loyalty to the German state," said Hans-Peter Uhl, a conservative national lawmaker and member of the Parliament's interior affairs committee.
"It's to protect our citizens and our interests and in no way to intervene in the interior affairs of a country".
The emphasis will be on financing existing programs at the neighborhood and school levels for what the government sees as a "growing problem" of the radicalization of Dutch youth, said the interior affairs minister, Guusje ter Horst.
Konstantin von Notz, the interior affairs spokesman of the opposition Green party, told Deutsche Welle radio: "What's been going on here is against international law and must be stopped immediately".
Wolfgang Bosbach, for example, who is the Christian Democrat [centre-right] head of the Bundestag committee which oversees interior affairs, questioned whether the US and Germany could be considered as "partners" any more.
Government initiatives have taken various forms from the creation of dedicated institutions to deal with migrant community issues to the addition of specific functions of existing ministries such as foreign affairs and interior affairs.
It was not going to be an easy task in a new government in which the prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, and the newly named ministers of interior, foreign affairs, defense and finance were all members of the ruling party.
Plutarch states that Cimon struck a power-sharing deal with his opponents, according to which Pericles would carry through the interior affairs and Cimon would be the leader of the Athenian army, campaigning abroad.
