Civil servants told to vote for Golkar

Civil servants told to vote for Golkar

DILI: East Timorese Civil Servant Corps members have been told
they should vote for Golkar, the dominant political organization,
in the May election.

Secretary of the corps' East Timorese chapter A.H. Latuconsina
said the rule also applied to wives of the civil servants grouped
in the Dharma Wanita organization.

Latuconsina said civil servants were required to vote for
Golkar because as a pillar of the bureaucracy they should unite
behind the ruling grouping.

"But mind you, the civil servants are not being intimidated to
vote for Golkar. It is just that as managers of the
administration they should vote for Golkar," he said.

On May 29, Golkar will contest the election against the United
development Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party.

Golkar, with strong backing from the bureaucracy, the Armed
Forces and business, is expecting to win more than 300 of the 425
House of Representatives seats being contested. (33)