FIVE Assistant Chief Ministers have been appointed to serve in the new government.
Deputies Tom Binet, Rose Binet, Carina Alves and Malcolm Ferey, plus Constable Simon Crowcroft, have been appointed by Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham, who was elected on 25 January and took office after the new Council of Ministers was confirmed last Tuesday.
In a ministerial decision signed yesterday, Deputy Farnham also formalised his previously announced intention to make Deputy Tom Binet his Deputy Chief Minister. This means Deputy Binet would stand in for the Chief Minister if he is absent.
A separate ministerial decision also confirmed the appointment of Deputies Rose Binet and Ferey as executive members of the States Employment Board, with Deputy Ferey subsequently revealing on social media that he was to serve as the SEB’s vice-chair.
Politicians are meeting today for their first meeting since the election of the new government, which was formed following the successful vote of no confidence brought against former Chief Minister Kristina Moore.
