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PDI-P meets with Sandiaga Uno for possible coalition
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The National Awakening Party’s (PKB) Jakarta chapter head Hasbiallah Ilyas (left) and acting chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Jakarta chapter Bambang Dwi Hartono chat after a meeting at the PKB’s Jakarta chapter office on Tuesday. (kompas.com/Kahfi Dirga Cahya)
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cting chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Jakarta chapter, Bambang Dwi Hartono, met on Tuesday with Gerindra Party gubernatorial candidate Sandiaga Uno amid the party’s efforts to nominate its own candidate.
“We have communicated with Mas Sandiaga Uno. We met this morning,” Bambang said in Jakarta on Tuesday as reported by kompas.com on the sidelines of a PDI-P meeting with the National Awakening Party's (PKB) representatives.
He, however, declined to comment on the details of what had been discussed during the meeting, but said that a number of big political parties were in the process of establishing a great coalition to nominate a Jakarta gubernatorial candidate.
The PDI-P, the largest party in the city with 28 seats on the City Council, is the only party that has a gubernatorial ticket without needing to establish a coalition with other parties.
However, the PDI-P is reportedly still in talks with other political parties, including the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the PKB and the National Mandate Party (PAN).
“To establish a great coalition, all political parties will meet. Not only two [the PDI-P and Gerindra],” said Bambang.
Until now, two candidates have been declared for the election, incumbent Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, who is supported by the Golkar Party, the Hanura Party and the NasDem Party, and Sandiaga, who is nominated by Gerindra.
Gerindra, however, said Sandiaga would be named a deputy gubernatorial candidates should the PDI-P choose against establishing a collation with Gerindra. (bbn)
