The Cabinet of Mohamed Muizzu is the current most senior level of the executive branch of the current

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. The cabinet ministers were appointed following the inauguration of President Mohamed Muizzu.

Mohamed Muizzu Mohamed Muizzu (born 15 June 1978) is a Maldivian politician and engineer who has been serving as the 8th president of the Maldives and leader of the People's National Congress (Maldives), People's National Congress since 2023. He previously ...

assumed office as

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on 17 November 2023. The cabinet ministers were also appointed on 17 November 2023. The cabinet include 22 Ministers.

Overview

President Muizzu's administration comprises 21 ministers in the cabinet. The positions were distributed among politicians representing various political factions. Following the appointments of ministers, Muizzu submitted the names of ministers to the

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for approval. Among twenty two cabinet ministers, three ministers, Ali Haidar Ahmed, Mohamed Shaheem and Ahmed Usham were unapproved after a brawl in the parliament. President Muizzu re–Appointed the three ministers, Shaheem as Minister of Islamic Affairs, Usham as

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and Haidar as Minister of Housing, Land and Urban Development. On 30 September 2024, when finance minister

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resigned from his position, the cabinet was re-structured shuffling Foreign Minister Zameer as Finance minister, and Health Minister Abdulla Khaleel as Foreign minister. Health minister was replaced by Principal Secretary to the President on Public Policy Abdulla Nazim Ibrahim. On 26 December 2024, President Muizzu merged the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure and the Ministry of Housing, Land, and Urban Development to create the

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. The Ministry of Finance was renamed to the Ministry of Finance and Planning. The Minister of Housing, Land, and Urban Development Ali Haidar Ahmed was appointed as the Minister of Higher Education, Labour and Skills Development, Maryam Mariya ''officially'' appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Animal Welfare, and Abdulla Muththalib as Minister of Construction, Housing, and Infrastructure. On 28 January 2025, president Mohamed Muizzu dismissed Ibrahim Faisal as Minister of Tourism, no reason being given for the dismissal. On 1 February 2025, Muizzu merged the Ministry of Tourism and the

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, thus making the Ministry of Tourism and Environment. He appointed

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as the head of the new ministry. This merger came with public backlash and criticism.

Composition

Former ministers

Deputy ministers

References

External links

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