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        "msgid": "failed-parties-protest-kpu-decision-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-12-20 00:00:00",
        "title": "Failed parties protest KPU decision",
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        "source": "JP",
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        "summary": "Failed parties protest KPU decision Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta Post, Jakarta The executives of political parties that have failed to pass General Elections Commission (KPU) screening rallied on Friday to demand that the commission overturn its decisions. The Reform Savior Party of Struggle (PPP Reformasi), the Marhaenisme National Party, the Indonesian Nationalist Unity Party (PPNI), and the Bhinneka Party were among the protesting parties.",
        "content": "<p>Failed parties protest KPU decision<\/p>\n<p>Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>The executives of political parties that have failed to pass<br>\nGeneral Elections Commission (KPU) screening rallied on Friday to<br>\ndemand that the commission overturn its decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Reform Savior Party of Struggle (PPP Reformasi), the<br>\nMarhaenisme National Party, the Indonesian Nationalist Unity<br>\nParty (PPNI), and the Bhinneka Party were among the protesting<br>\nparties.<\/p>\n<p>PPP Reformasi members vowed to stay at the mosque in the KPU<br>\ncompound until the commission revoked its decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\"We hope God will listen to our struggle,\" Mansyur Muhyidin,<br>\nBanten's PPP Reformasi chairman said. The party's chairman Saleh<br>\nKhalid also took part in the rally which was staged in the KPU<br>\ncompound.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh said that he had had a quick discussion with KPU<br>\nchairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin, who later in the day said the KPU<br>\nwould discuss the problem during a plenary session on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP Reformasi claimed that North Sulawesi's Local<br>\nElections Commission (KPUD) had declared that the party had<br>\npassed verification but the report reached the KPU one day after<br>\nthe Dec. 8 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The approval by South Sulawesi's Local Elections Commission<br>\nwould have helped the PPP Reformasi meet the minimum requirement<br>\nof passing the screening in 21 provinces.<\/p>\n<p>However, a source said the North Sulawesi Local Elections<br>\nCommission later overturned its decision on Dec. 15, but it<br>\nfailed to let the KPU know.<\/p>\n<p>PPNI chairman Gempar Soekarnoputra said his party and several<br>\nother parties were demanding that the KPU revise its decision<br>\nwithin 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The KPU had previously said the results of the verification of<br>\nparties would not be changed, but stressed that disappointed<br>\nparties were free to challenge its decisions in court.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, some of those political parties filed complaints with<br>\nthe Elections Supervisory Committee, claiming violations by Local<br>\nElections Commission officials that had cost them the chance to<br>\ncontest the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Messenger of Peace and Love the Nation Party<br>\n(PPDKB) said it accepted the KPU decision to bar it from running<br>\nin the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\"The results simply reflect that there was tight competition<br>\namong the parties wanting to contest the 2004 elections,\" the<br>\nparty chairman, Gregorius Seto Harianto, said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>He called on party members and executives not to join other<br>\nparties but said they were free to vote for other parties that<br>\nsupported democracy, nationalism and non-discrimination.<\/p>",
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