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PKS to meet with PD on Boediono’s candidacy
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 05/14/2009 10:43 PM | Election 2009
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) will hold a final showdown with the Democratic Party (PD) on Friday to end the on-and-off relationships both parties have gone through due to the recent vice presidential candidacy of Bank Indonesia Governor Boediono."We will meet directly with PD's own presidential candidate and incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) tomorrow to finally determine our final stance," PKS President Tifatul Sembiring said in Jakarta on Thursday.
Tifatul said that SBY must explain PKS regarding the reason of Boediono's candidacy.
"We want to be able to rationalize his reasoning, because if we decide to support SBY, then we'll have to explain a lot to our constituent," he said.
Tifatul said that PKS' constituents were mostly Muslim and that they saw Boediono as an unsuitable representative for them.
"We do not care about cabinet seats allocation, we want to make sure that our constituents are well represented," he said.
PKS is one of the earliest party which pledged their allegiance towards PD for the July presidential election.
However, both parties' relationships have been tarnished by the recent candidacy of Boediono.
PKS have threatened to leave the coalition and build an axis of their own if Boediono is nominated without proper reasoning from PD.(hdt)
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Iain — Thu, 05/14/2009 - 11:55pm
I thought everyone (non-PKS supporters) were told "leave religion out of it! why do you always have to revert back to religion??" when people would not have a positive comment about PKS's religious leanings.
But now PKS is saying that because their supporters are muslim, then Boediono is unsuitable as VP.
Please, PKS supporters... answer two of my questions;
1. Why is Boediono unsuitable for Muslims?
2. Why can't we judge based on religion but you can?