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Familiar faces make way to House of Representatives
From outgoing ministers to popular singers and comedians, familiar faces are making their way to the House of Representatives after last month's legislative election.
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Local poll administrators (KPPS) show a ballot paper for the legislative election to a voter on Dec. 29, 2023, during an election simulation at the South Jakarta Elections Commission (KPU) office in Jakarta. The KPU held voting day simulations to educate the public ahead of polling day slated for Feb. 14. (Antara/Muhammad Ramdan)
From outgoing ministers to popular singers and comedians, familiar faces will be making their way to the House of Representatives after last month's legislative election.
Over 9,900 legislative candidates from 18 political parties competed for 580 House seats in 84 electoral districts in the Feb. 14 poll.
While the final vote tally on Wednesday showed that eight parties had passed the 4 percent threshold to send representatives to the House, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has yet to announce the seat allocation for these parties and which legislative candidates have secured a spot.
But the tally revealed that several ministers serving in the outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo administration are likely to have made it to the House, such as Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).
Yasonna won the second-most votes among PDI-P candidates in the North Sumatra I electoral district. His party, which gained the most votes in the district, is predicted to secure two out of 10 House seats from the district, one of which is likely to go to Yasonna.
Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar, who ran in the East Java VIII district on a National Awakening Party (PKB) ticket, has probably also made the list. As has fellow party member, Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah, who ran in the Jakarta II district.
No guarantee
