"As far as I know there is still no urgency to reshuffle the cabinet and therefore, there has not as yet been cabinet reshuffle," Julian Aldrin Pasha said at the presidential office here on Thursday.
Reshuffling the cabinet was fully the president`s prerogative and he would do so if considered necessary, he said.
"So we cannot say for sure whether the cabinet reshuffle will take place in the not-so-distant future or anytime in the future," he said.
He denied that the polemic within the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) would become one of the president`s considerations in reshuffling the cabinet. The polemic was the party`s internal problem, he said.
He said President Yudhoyono also had not issued a statement related to a rift within the PKS leadership. Neither would he intervene in the problem faced by other political parties.
"If it is called a grand design that goes too far and is difficult to imagine. The President is very carefully not to become embroiled in the political sphere which is not the government`s domain," he said.
PKS is among members of the ruling coalition led by President Yudhoyono`s Democratic Party. The others are Golkar Party, the National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Mandate Party (PAN).(*)
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