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DEMOCRAT: CHANCE NOW BIGGER PDIP TO JOIN COALITION
Jakarta, March 20 (ANTARA) - A ruling Democrat Party leader said the chance for the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDIP) to join the coalition was bigger and so was a future coalition with the Golkar Party.
"It could be seen like that (the chance to join the coalition is bigger) but I think PDIP is also thinking about long-term goals," the party's vice chairman, Mubarok, said here on Saturday.
Earlier, PDIP secretary general Pramono Anung had said that his party would no longer position itself as an opposition party but a balancing party which is pro-people.
Mubarok said the statement was a response to the big idea about a coalition among the three nationalist parties, namely PDIP, the Democrat Party and the Golkar Party to face political competition in 2014.
"This means a match because the idea has been there for a long time and was once discussed with Pak Tjahjo (PDIP leader). If the three parties coalesce and the coalition is solid it can become a political anchor because all religious-oriented parties are declining," he said.
Mubarok said it was predicted that in the 2014 legislative and presidential elections no party would dominate so that a solid coalition would be needed to support the next government.
"The stock of national figures for 2014 is not available yet and so efforts have to be made earlier to find them through developing a big coalition including in the system of recruitment. The political parties to join it must be those with a centrist ideology, religious and nationalist. The three parties (PDIP, Democrat and Golkar) have such an ideology," he said.
Mubarok said although the three parties had different interests their political principles were the same for the 2014 elections.
"So far we are different because PDIP has a Megawati factor (current chief) while Golkar has already changed from a government party while the Democrat Party has to lead because of its victory. So the three parties have common big problems," he said.
Mubarok said his statement did not mean that PDIP had communicated with President Yudhoyono with regard to joining the coalition in the near future.
"No serious communications have taken place. PDIP still has to wait for the results of its congress. The Democrat Party will also hold a congress," he said.***
"It could be seen like that (the chance to join the coalition is bigger) but I think PDIP is also thinking about long-term goals," the party's vice chairman, Mubarok, said here on Saturday.
Earlier, PDIP secretary general Pramono Anung had said that his party would no longer position itself as an opposition party but a balancing party which is pro-people.
Mubarok said the statement was a response to the big idea about a coalition among the three nationalist parties, namely PDIP, the Democrat Party and the Golkar Party to face political competition in 2014.
"This means a match because the idea has been there for a long time and was once discussed with Pak Tjahjo (PDIP leader). If the three parties coalesce and the coalition is solid it can become a political anchor because all religious-oriented parties are declining," he said.
Mubarok said it was predicted that in the 2014 legislative and presidential elections no party would dominate so that a solid coalition would be needed to support the next government.
"The stock of national figures for 2014 is not available yet and so efforts have to be made earlier to find them through developing a big coalition including in the system of recruitment. The political parties to join it must be those with a centrist ideology, religious and nationalist. The three parties (PDIP, Democrat and Golkar) have such an ideology," he said.
Mubarok said although the three parties had different interests their political principles were the same for the 2014 elections.
"So far we are different because PDIP has a Megawati factor (current chief) while Golkar has already changed from a government party while the Democrat Party has to lead because of its victory. So the three parties have common big problems," he said.
Mubarok said his statement did not mean that PDIP had communicated with President Yudhoyono with regard to joining the coalition in the near future.
"No serious communications have taken place. PDIP still has to wait for the results of its congress. The Democrat Party will also hold a congress," he said.***
