A well-placed source from PKR said a prominent minister from the party will either be moved to another ministry or dropped from the Cabinet. “The person’s performance has been in question, and the individual is expected to be removed or shifted to another ministry,” he told FMT.

A menteri besar is believed to be taking a ministerial post, a move that was talked about before the Cabinet reshuffle in December. “The possibility of him being moved to the federal government now is higher. At the state level, several assemblymen are in the know about this,” the source added.

Another source from DAP confirmed that there has been talk of a Cabinet reshuffle which could take place by the end of August, with a couple of deputy ministers set to be promoted to ministerial roles.

“The talk was initially for the reshuffle to happen by the end of this month, so we just have to wait and see: in politics, anything can happen,” the source said.

Separately, a corporate source said a minister’s team had cited an impending reshuffle as the reason for cancellation of the minister’s appearance at a company event this month.

“We locked in the minister’s date for the event but the minister’s team declined at the last minute, citing the reshuffle as the reason,” the source said.

The Cabinet was last reshuffled in December last year and expanded from 29 ministers to 31.