KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is expected to reshuffle the Cabinet after the upcoming state elections.
However, a "clean-up" of senior civil servants is expected to be done first, FMT reported, quoting a well-placed PKR source.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said Anwar intended to cut some deadwood from his Cabinet, but it is more likely that secretaries-general and directors-general from a number of unspecified ministries will be axed in a "house clean-up".
"You can change the government, you can change ministers, but if you don't change the people inside, it will not go anywhere.
"Certain ministers, especially from Pakatan Harapan, do not know what they are doing at the moment, hence a clean-up is required," the portal quoted the source as saying.
However, he added that making a change at the ministerial level will make no difference if the incompetence remains within the civil service.
"It is a bottom-up approach. What is the point of changing ministers when you don't change the system?" he said.