The ministry portfolio is currently held by Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of Environment and Forests, who is assisted by two Ministers of State.

The situation came to a head when Pedro I, on the grounds of inappropriate conduct, dismissed Bonifácio and his brother Martim Francisco de Andrada from their ministry portfolios.

It is axiomatic here that the governmental ups and downs occur precisely because the political system is fundamentally stable, with the same people, mostly Christian Democrats, governing for 40 years and dealing out ministry portfolios among one another.

He appointed his colleagues to ministry portfolios.

Paraná appointed politicians who had few, or no, links to the saquaremas to fill the new cabinet's ministry portfolios.

In September 1983, Nicholas Biwott was made Minster of Energy and Regional Development and in March 1988 (following a reorganisation of ministry portfolios) he became Minister of Energy, a post he held until January 1991.

Fernandez served under various ministry portfolios in the 1950s and 1960s.

Premier Zhou Enlai relied on a group of young people who had served under him in various negotiations to form the core of the newly established foreign ministry, and Zhou himself held the foreign ministry portfolio until 1958.

He was replaced by Araújo Lima who appointed his colleagues to fill ministry portfolios.

When Araújo Lima was elected regent in place of Feijó he named Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos to one of the ministry portfolios and he soon became a de facto Prime Minister, with even more power than the regent himself.