Legislative candidate announced on Dec. 20

Legislative candidate announced on Dec. 20

JAKARTA (JP): Politicians who failed the candidature screening
tests carried out by the military until Nov. 30 will have their
names dropped from the list of next year's candidates for the
House of Representatives.

Spokesman for the General Election Institute Dailami said
yesterday there would be no compromise for politicians who missed
the deadline.

"They will be disqualified," Dailami said, adding that the
institute and the three political organizations contesting next
year's election would finalize the lists.

The final lists will be made public on Dec. 20, he said.

The political organizations -- the ruling Golkar, the United
Development Party (PPP) and the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)
-- will vie for 425 of the available 500 seats in the House next
year. The remaining 75 seats are reserved for the Armed Forces,
whose members do not vote in elections.

Each political organization is permitted to submit a maximum
of 850 candidates names for next year's election. The figure is
twice the number of allocated seats for the three organizations.

All eligible Indonesians will cast their votes next May to
elect their representatives in the House and legislative
councils.

The screening rule requires candidates to provide documents
including a statement from the State Internal Security Agency of
proving the candidates disengagement from outlawed political
organizations and physical and mental health records from
doctors.

Dailami said the number of legislative candidates who passed
the screening and those who failed it would not be made public
until Dec. 20.

"It is just reasonable that not all the proposed candidates
pass the screening," he said.

National Screening Committee chairman Sutoyo N.K. announced
last month that the PPP had submitted screening documents for 774
candidates, Golkar 836 and the PDI 772. (imn)