Council candidates list incomplete

Council candidates list incomplete

BOGOR: Bogor General Elections Commission (KPU Bogor) returned
on Tuesday the lists of 525 council candidates submitted by the
24 competing political parties as the number of candidates is
fewer than half of the expected 1,320 candidates.

"Moreover, most of the candidates have not met the
administrative requirements and nearly all of the political
parties failed to meet the recommended 30 percent allocation for
women," KPU Bogor chairman Rajab Tampubolon said.

He added that only the Indonesian National Party (PNI)'s list
was dominated by women candidates. Up to 56 percent of its
candidates are women.

The commission, said Tampubolon, expected the political
parties to fulfill all of the requirements and to resubmit the
lists by Jan. 20 at the latest, as the names will be made public
the week after. -- JP