North Sumatra legislative council elects new speaker
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 04/15/2009 3:10 PM
The North Sumatra legislative council elected Darmataksiah JWR, a
councilor from the Golkar Party, as the new council speaker Wednesday,
replacing Abdul Azis Angkat who died following a riot in February.
Darmataksiah, the first woman to ever hold the position, won by 33
votes in a head-to-head battle against fellow Golkar councilor Hamas
Muda Siregar.
Votes were cast by 58 out of the total 84 members of the council.
"I will do my best," she said after the vote count to tempointeraktif.com
The election was held to fill the empty council speaker seat
left by Abdul, who died from a heart attack just hours after a group of
protesters demonstrated outside the council building, demanding it form
a new administrative province in Tapanuli. (dre)
