President Kumba Yala of Guinea-Bissau swore a minority government into office on Thursday to replace the erstwhile coalition cabinet that fell apart earlier in the week, the Portuguese news agency, Lusa, reported.
The new cabinet of 13 ministers and seven state secretaries drawn mainly from the president’s Partido da renovacao social (PRS) is headed by Caetano Intchama, who retained his job as prime minister.
The previous government collapsed on Tuesday after a decision by Yala to reshuffle the cabinet prompted ministers of the coalition partner, Resistencia da Guine-Bissau to withdraw from the one-year-old coalition on the grounds they were not consulted on the move.
The PRS holds only 37 seats in the 102-member parliament and had depended on the RGB’s 28 to have a majority in the legislature.
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