COMMENT | Cabinet reshuffles are often presented as administrative fine-tuning, the quiet rearrangement of responsibilities meant to improve delivery and preserve political balance.

In reality, they are moments of intense symbolic exposure. They tell the public who is trusted, who is protected, who is seen, and who is expected to endure.

That assumption has repeatedly proven false in societies under economic pressure. When household anxiety is high, people do not assess the government through spreadsheets or coalition arithmetic. They assess it through symbols, moral cues, and perceived order.

The cabinet, fairly or unfairly, becomes the mirror through which they judge whether the system still makes sense.

What is unfolding now is...