INDONESIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2009 - Deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Achmad Mubarok said Wednesday his party’s recent involvement with arch-rival’s the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) was only a political game.
“Our decision to move closer to the PDI-P is only a game to remind our political partners to stop pressuring President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” he told a discussion at the Regional Representatives Council.
Yudhoyono’s coalition bloc consists of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and dozens of small parties.
Despite Yudhoyono’s allegiance to those parties, the Democratic Party plans to endorse PDI-P chief patron Taufik Kiemas as the next speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).
“Politics is a dynamic game, and we don’t know where it will head to and who will score the winner,” Mubarok said.
A political analyst from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ikrar Nusa Bakti, said Mubarok might refer to PKS.
“The PKS is the party that still has reservations with the ties between the Democratic Party and PDI-P,” he said. (jpost)
“Our decision to move closer to the PDI-P is only a game to remind our political partners to stop pressuring President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” he told a discussion at the Regional Representatives Council.
Yudhoyono’s coalition bloc consists of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and dozens of small parties.
Despite Yudhoyono’s allegiance to those parties, the Democratic Party plans to endorse PDI-P chief patron Taufik Kiemas as the next speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).
“Politics is a dynamic game, and we don’t know where it will head to and who will score the winner,” Mubarok said.
A political analyst from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ikrar Nusa Bakti, said Mubarok might refer to PKS.
“The PKS is the party that still has reservations with the ties between the Democratic Party and PDI-P,” he said. (jpost)
0 comments:
Post a Comment