"God willing, the meeting [between Prabowo and Megawati] will happen before the incoming president’s inauguration next month," Ahmad Muzani, the secretary-general of Prabowo’s Gerindra Party, said on Monday.

The renewed plan came after Muzani, who serves as deputy speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), encountered Megawati on Monday at an MPR event that denounced accusations that her father Sukarno had protected the now-defunct communist movement.

After winning the February election with the help of Jokowi’s popularity and political influence, Prabowo has lured several political parties that were behind his two election rivals into his fold. The president-elect has now secured a majority in the legislature with all but one of nine political parties in the House of Representatives having declared their support for the incoming president.

Only Megawati’s party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which is poised to retain the House speakership after winning the largest share of House seats in February, has yet to decide whether it will support or oppose the Prabowo administration.

The PDI-P is Jokowi’s former sponsor and parted ways with the outgoing President over his tacit support for Prabowo rather than the PDI-P’s own candidate in February’s election.

Signs of warmer ties between Prabowo and Megawati, however, came to a head last week at a Gerindra event, which was attended by Jokowi and representatives from pro-Prabowo parties.