Agung opposes House reshuffle

Agung opposes House reshuffle

JAKARTA: Speaker of the House of Representatives Agung Laksono
opposed calls for an immediate reshuffle of House speakers saying
that it would be difficult to realize.

Agung, who is also deputy head of the Golkar Party, said on
Friday that to reshuffle the House leadership, lawmakers must
first revise Law No. 22/2003, which stipulates that the House
Speaker and three deputy speakers have a five-year mandate.

"If we want to shake up the House leadership, then we have to
revise the regulations first," he said.

He added that the political parties had the authority to call
for a reshuffle, not the House factions.

The demand for a change in the leadership of the current House
members elected last year came from the Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which also demands that the House
leadership should be held by five people instead of four at the
moment. -- Antara