On June 16, the office of the Egyptian prime minister announced the new makeup of the Cabinet — the first to be formally appointed and sworn in after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military general and former defense minister, was inaugurated as Egypt’s sixth president.

Since Sisi led the removal of Egypt’s last elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, there have been two prime ministers and more reshuffles within the Cabinet. When the first prime minister, the Social Democratic Party member Hazem el-Biblawi, resigned in late February, it was widely suspected that his successor, Ibrahim Mehleb, would preside over the government until at least the parliamentary elections. This latest Cabinet bears that out, but there are a few points to keep in mind, as Egypt moves along on its formal political road map.

Once Sisi’s inauguration was completed, Mehleb resigned and was immediately reappointed by the presidency. That should not strike anyone as surprising, but in his redesigning of Cabinet positions, and the very structure of the Cabinet, Mehleb did change a few things. For one thing, the Ministry of Information, a ministry that has been criticized inside and outside of Egypt, perceived as an obstacle to freedom of the press, was dissolved. However, that is not to say that media regulation has suddenly been done away with. Instead, a "Supreme Council of Information" has been formed, and over the coming weeks and months, it will become clear how much substantive change has taken place.

As the Cabinet was sworn in early on the morning of June 17, most of the major posts remained the same. The defense minister — which neither Mehleb nor Sisi have the formal constitutional authority to change — remains the same, as does the infamous Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim. For the latter, various actors have been calling for his dismissal for months — for very wide and disparate reasons — but it seems unlikely that Ibrahim is going anywhere, until at least parliamentary elections are held.