Coalition seeks House top posts

Tue, 28 Sep 2004, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: After failing to help Megawati Soekarnoputri retain
the presidency, a coalition of major parties in the House of
Representatives is eying the House's leadership posts.

United Development Party (PPP) leader Hamzah Haz said on
Monday the coalition would fight for the House speakership and
three deputy posts in an election on Oct. 1.

Hamzah, who is also the Vice President, said the four
political parties grouped in the coalition remained united.

The so-called Nationhood Coalition consists of PPP, Golkar,
the Prosperous Peace Party (PDS) and the Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P). The four parties control 307 of the
550 seats in the House. -- JP

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