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        "msgid": "only-48-parties-to-contest-election-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-09-10 00:00:00",
        "title": "Only 48 parties to contest election",
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        "summary": "Only 48 parties to contest election BUDAPEST: President Megawati Soekarnoputri predicted here on Monday that out of the 200 political parties that had registered with the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, only 48 would qualify for the general election in 2004. \"The 1999 election was contested by 48 political parties. The 2004 election will have more or less the same number of contestants,\" Megawati said at a get-together with members of the Indonesian community living in Budapest.",
        "content": "<p>Only 48 parties to contest election<\/p>\n<p>BUDAPEST: President Megawati Soekarnoputri predicted here on <br>\nMonday that out of the 200 political parties that had registered <br>\nwith the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, only 48 would <br>\nqualify for the general election in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\"The 1999 election was contested by 48 political parties. The <br>\n2004 election will have more or less the same number of <br>\ncontestants,\" Megawati said at a get-together with members of the <br>\nIndonesian community living in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Megawati said the birth of new political parties in recent <br>\nyears had raised the question whether all of them would be <br>\nautomatically eligible for participation in the 2004 polls.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think, that is unfeasible. There must be a selection <br>\nprocess under the law on general elections,\" she said as quoted <br>\nby Antara.<\/p>\n<p>Megawati said the government would conduct a simulation of a <br>\ngeneral election participated in by more than 50 political <br>\nparties. -- Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/only-48-parties-to-contest-election-1447893297",
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