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PDI-P, Gerindra top election results, but Golkar has something to celebrate too
Nine parties have made it to the House of Representatives, while seven failed to pass the electoral threshold.
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General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Arief Budiman (second right) holds hands with the head of the Elections Supervisory Agency, Abhan (second left), flanked by the witnesses of the two presidential candidate camps after the KPU finished the vote-counting process at the KPU building in Jakarta on May 21. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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he Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Gerindra Party have come out on top in the legislative election, according to the nationwide tally of the General Elections Commission (KPU), but Golkar Party executives were celebrating on Tuesday, saying they had secured the second-most seats at the House of Representatives.
The PDI-P, Gerindra and Golkar got 19.33 percent, 12.57 percent and 12.31 percent, respectively, in the legislative elections.
The United Development Party (PPP), which was mired in graft allegations, became the last party that made it to the House with 4.52 percent. In total, nine parties secured seats at the House by passing the electoral threshold of 4 percent.
Seven others, including the Hanura Party and the newcomer Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), did not make it to the national legislative body.
Golkar spokesman Ace Hasan Syadzily said in Jakarta on Tuesday that his party, despite being third in the number of votes, would get the second-highest number of seats in the legislature.
