Prabowo, who ran alongside President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s son Gibran Rakabuming Raka, defeated his rivals for the presidency by a comfortable margin in the February election, but the Gerindra Party, which he chairs, placed in third in the race for House seats.

The PDI-P, meanwhile, whose relations with Jokowi have deeply soured since the President allowed his son to run as Prabowo’s running mate, has again come out on top in the legislature with the greatest share of the nationwide vote, which will likely translate to the greatest number of House seats.

"The winner of the legislative election should, then, have the right to the House speaker post,” Puan said on Thursday in response to a question about the prospect of her being reappointed as speaker.

She was referring to the Legislative Institutions Law, which grants the party with the greatest share of House seats the right to name one of its lawmakers the chamber’s speaker, a position with significant authority to set the House’s agenda.

Eight parties met the threshold to send representatives to the House, according to the final General Elections Commission (KPU) vote tally released in March, but the commission is only expected to announce the specific seat allocation in May, after all election disputes are settled at court.

Speculation has been rife that the pro-Prabowo parties are seeking to amend the Legislative Institutions Law to give their camp a greater chance of securing the speaker seat and increase their political sway after the change of government.