Muhaimin looks set to take PKB's top post
Muhaimin looks set to take PKB's top post
Muhaimin Iskandar, a deputy speaker of the House of
Representatives, is set to take over leadership of the National
Awakening Party (PKB).
Muhaimin was the lone candidate when the
election began at 11 p.m. in Semarang, Central Java, where the
party is holding a national congress. Another candidate, former
defense minister Mahfud MD, pulled out of the election.
Meanwhile, PKB cofounder and former president Abdurrahman Wahid
was named the chairman of the party's consultative board. --JP