Indonesian parties scrambling for coalitions after legislative election

April 12, 2014
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – No party competing in legislative elections passed the threshold necessary to field a candidate for president by itself, local media reported Thursday (April 10th).

  • Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo holds a press conference Friday (April 11th) in Jakarta after no party reportedly reached the threshold in legislative election results to field its own candidate in July. [Bay Ismoyo/AFP]

    Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo holds a press conference Friday (April 11th) in Jakarta after no party reportedly reached the threshold in legislative election results to field its own candidate in July. [Bay Ismoyo/AFP]

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The latest "quick counts" of Wednesday's vote show front-running Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) winning between 18.5 and 19.71% of the national vote, according to Pekanbaru.co.

Indonesian law requires political parties to win at least 20% of the 560 chairs in the House of Representatives or 25% of the national vote to enter a candidate in July's presidential race.

Political parties are now scrambling to form coalitions to obtain the necessary numbers.

The quick counts confirmed that Indonesia's five Islamic parties together captured about 33% of the vote, suggesting they will be viable players in the race to form coalitions.

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    • andinka
      April 12, 2014 @ 09:04:59PM
    • In my opinion there are many parties that would want to form coalitions but only a few that are strong enough to do so. The people are hoping that whichever parties decide to create a coalition will not only work towards obtaining seats in the house of representatives or only thinking for their own benefit.

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