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        "id": 1414459,
        "msgid": "parties-set-to-vie-for-mpr-regional-representative-seats-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-09-03 00:00:00",
        "title": "Parties set to vie for MPR regional representative seats",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Parties set to vie for MPR regional representative seats JAKARTA (JP): Due to time constraints, city councilors here will likely agree to retain the previous City Council's internal regulation for the election of the capital's five representatives to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).",
        "content": "<p>Parties set to vie for MPR regional representative seats<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Due to time constraints, city councilors here<br>\nwill likely agree to retain the previous City Council's internal<br>\nregulation for the election of the capital's five representatives<br>\nto the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).<\/p>\n<p>\"We'll suggest that the new City Council adopt the previous<br>\ncouncil's internal regulation in electing the five city<br>\nrepresentatives to the MPR,\" Maringan Pangaribuan of the<br>\nIndonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) said on<br>\nThursday.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Tubagus Abbas Saleh Makmun of the National<br>\nAwakening Party (PKB), M. Soewardi of the National Mandate Party<br>\n(PAN) and Chizbiyah Rochim of the United Development Party (PPP)<br>\nsaid their respective factions would propose at an upcoming<br>\ncouncil meeting that it adopt the previous council's regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The council is expected to elect the five Jakarta<br>\nrepresentatives at a full sitting on Sept. 15. It is expected to<br>\nestablish the five council commissions and their leaders next<br>\nMonday, while the council speaker and three deputy speakers would<br>\nbe elected next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>If adopted, the council's internal regulation will rule that<br>\neach of the council's 10 factions -- the nine parties winning<br>\nseats in the June 7 elections and the military faction -- is<br>\nallowed to propose a maximum of five candidates for the city's<br>\nrepresentatives at the MPR. Each representative should be agreed<br>\nto by at least two-thirds of the 85 councilors.<\/p>\n<p>Dominating the city council with 30 seats, PDI Perjuangan aims<br>\nto get at least three of the five tickets to the MPR.<\/p>\n<p>\"The three tickets are meant to secure the presidential<br>\nnomination of party chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri in the<br>\nMPR,\" Pangaribuan, secretary of the party's Jakarta chapter,<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>\"We would concentrate on how to get the three tickets, rather<br>\nthan on the election of the council's leaders,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>As the winner of the June 7 polls, PDI Perjuangan will have<br>\nthe seats of one of the council's faction leaders and will head<br>\none of the commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Tubagus Abbas of PKB, however, said it was inappropriate for<br>\nPDI Perjuangan to demand three seats at the MPR.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's greedy and arrogant,\" Abbas, chairman of PKB's Jakarta<br>\nchapter, said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Mandate Party's Jakarta chapter chairman, M.<br>\nSoewardi, said he could tolerate PDI Perjuangan taking two of the<br>\nfive seats.<\/p>\n<p>\"It'll be difficult for PDI Perjuangan to get the three<br>\ntickets as other parties also want them,\" Soewardi said. (jun)<\/p>",
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