CAIRO — On Feb. 14, the Cabinet of Sherif Ismail went through its second reshuffle since he took office Sept. 12, 2015, and it likely will not be the last one. Last month's long-awaited reshuffle, expected since August, was disappointing to many politicians and analysts.

The new ministers include Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Wadoud as minister of agriculture and land reclamation; Omar Arafa as minister of legal and parliamentary affairs; Ali Meselhy, the former minister of social solidarity in the era of Hosni Mubarak and head of the parliamentary Economic Committee, as minister of supply and internal trade; Mohamed Zein el-Abidin as minister of local development; Hala al-Saeed as minister of planning and administrative reform; Khaled Abdel Ghaffar as minister of higher education and scientific research; Tarek Jalal as minister of education; and Hesham Arafat as minister of transportation and communication. The ministries of investment and international cooperation were merged together and headed by Minister Sahar Nasr.

Former Ambassador Mohamed Orabi, the chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee said in a press statement to Masr al-Arabia news website Feb. 15 that the reshuffle was disappointing but that the prime minister should not be blamed since many ministerial candidates rejected the portfolios Ismail had offered them.

Orabi said, “The government's economic policies were not changed. No new ministers with the ability to solve Egypt’s crises were nominated to assume economic portfolios while the current economic ministers have yet to announce a clear program to solve these crises,” he said.