"A cabinet reshuffle all depend on how the president sees its urgency but so far the head of state is not yet thinking about it," Julian said at Halim Perdanakusua airport before leaving for Brunei Darussalam to accompany President Yudhoyono on a two-day working visit to the country.
Julian said that if there was concern among a number of coalition member parties about a cabinet reshuffle following the outcome of the vote on a House inquiry into tax mafia practices, it was unfounded because the president would not reshuffle the cabinet because of that.
"If there will be a cabinet reshuffle , it would certainly be done on rational considerations but it is, of course, the prerogative of the president," Julian said.
He added that the discourse on cabinet reshuffle was not from internal government but probably from the result of analysis of political observers.
In relation with a development that Gerindra Party rejected the proposed tax mafia inquiry motion which was matching with the Democrat Party, and the opinion that the party which supported Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subijanto would join government coalition, Julian said there had yet a meeting between President Yudhoyono and Prabowo.
The House of Representatives (DPR) in its plenary meeting on Tuesday evening rejected the proposed tax mafia inquiry motion through voting with 266 legislators against and 264 others in favor of the proposal.
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