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GOLKAR ELITE INCLINED TO REMAIN ALLIED WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY: LAKSONO
Jakarta, April 13 (ANTARA) - The Golkar Party leadership is inclined to maintain its coalition with the Democratic Party (PD) in the upcoming July 8 presidential election, Golkar Vice Chairman Agung Laksono said.
"The Golkar Party executive board is inclined to coalesce with the Democratic Party because voices in the central leadership are like that," Laksono said on the sidelines of the opening of a plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Monday.
However, he said, a decision could not yet be made now because it had to be discussed first in a Golkar special national meeting in the near future.
Laksono who is also speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) said there were still voices among Golkar's regional branches that want the party to stick to its earlier position to let Golkar chairman Jusuf Kalla run for president although Golkar had not won as many votes as expected in the April 8 legislative elections.
As such, the Golakr Party executive board could not take a decision before listening to the opinions of regional branches as it concerned a strategic matter, he said.
He said a coalition between Golkar and the Democratic Party also depended on the Democratic Party's advisory board chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Asked on political communications Golkar had built so far, Agung said that his party was having political communications with any party and communications which had been built could not be ignored in such a way.
However, the main communication now being built was with the Democrat Party camp, he said.
On Thursday last week a legislative election was held for the 2009 - 2014 period with 38 political parties vying for 560 seats in the House of Representatives.
A quick count by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) indicated that the Democratic Party won 20.48 percent in the first place of the votes followed by PDI-P with 14.33 percent and the Golkar Party with 13.95 percent in the second and third places respectively.***
"The Golkar Party executive board is inclined to coalesce with the Democratic Party because voices in the central leadership are like that," Laksono said on the sidelines of the opening of a plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Monday.
However, he said, a decision could not yet be made now because it had to be discussed first in a Golkar special national meeting in the near future.
Laksono who is also speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) said there were still voices among Golkar's regional branches that want the party to stick to its earlier position to let Golkar chairman Jusuf Kalla run for president although Golkar had not won as many votes as expected in the April 8 legislative elections.
As such, the Golakr Party executive board could not take a decision before listening to the opinions of regional branches as it concerned a strategic matter, he said.
He said a coalition between Golkar and the Democratic Party also depended on the Democratic Party's advisory board chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Asked on political communications Golkar had built so far, Agung said that his party was having political communications with any party and communications which had been built could not be ignored in such a way.
However, the main communication now being built was with the Democrat Party camp, he said.
On Thursday last week a legislative election was held for the 2009 - 2014 period with 38 political parties vying for 560 seats in the House of Representatives.
A quick count by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) indicated that the Democratic Party won 20.48 percent in the first place of the votes followed by PDI-P with 14.33 percent and the Golkar Party with 13.95 percent in the second and third places respectively.***
