Unregistered parties get votes in Ambon

Unregistered parties get votes in Ambon

AMBON, Maluku: Thirteen political parties which were not
registered with the local election committee here, have won some
votes, Antara reported.

Chairman of Ambon's municipality election committee, Joppy
Papilaja, confirmed here Thursday that 13 unregistered parties
had won votes in the recent polls. He attributed this to the
inadequate socialization of Law No 3/1999 on general elections.

The 13 parties included the Muslim Community Awakening Party
(PKU), Abul Yatama Party, Democratic People's Party (PRD), Murba
Party, Peace-Loving Party, and Indonesian Workers Party (PPI).

Papilaja disclosed that the five leading parties in the
provisional vote count were the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) with 34,220 votes for the House of
Representatives (DPR), 31,638 votes for the provincial
legislative assembly (DPRD-I) and 31,394 votes for the regional
legislative assembly (DPRD-II).

The United Development Party (PPP) came second, followed by
Golkar, the Crescent Star Party (PBB) and the Nation-Loving
Democratic Party.