Ballot counting ends in chaos

Ballot counting ends in chaos

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: Many mayoralty election
officials here have absented themselves from the polling process,
upon realizing their parties were performing poorly, Antara
reported on Wednesday.

"As a result, no returns from the mayoralty have reached the
local elections committee", Matlim Alang, deputy chief of the
Central Kalimantan elections committee told Antara.

"They just absented themselves on realizing the parties they
adore had lost."

It is understood the polls in Palangka Raya were won by the
Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), while the
election officials were mostly Golkar Party supporters.

PDI-P takes a commanding lead over other major parties in the
area which has 86,359 eligible voters.