Indonesia's parties start talks on coalition

Indonesia's parties start talks on coalition 

JAKARTA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's some political parties' leaders have started talks on coalition to strengthen their ties ahead of the Indonesian presidential polls to be held on July 8, as there was no a single majority at the April's 9 legislative polls, local televisions reported on Tuesday.
    On Monday evening, the chairman of the Golkar Party, which posts second position at the temporary quick-count surveys, Jusuf Kalla met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyno at his residential at Bogor of West Java.
    Kalla is Indonesian vice president and Susilo's party of Democrat Party tops the surveys.
    Indonesia's election law requires more than 20 percent seats atparliament or at least 25 percent votes got to be able to field a candidate at the presidential poll.
    All the top-three parties at the survey only got more than 20 percent and less than 30 percent votes.
    Earlier on Monday, the chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party who is the former president of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri met with some leaders of new parties which still post top ten out of 38 national political parties.
    President Susilo's party, the Democrat Party is believed to win in the votes.
    The possible coalition with Golkar Party may continue the pair of Susilo and Kalla in the next five years term.
    Earlier, president Susilo mentioned that Kalla is among the candidate of the vice president that he might chose.
    Susilo said that his party was open for coalition to set up a strong position at the parliament.
    Susilo also required a political contract to those parties it asked for coalition to prevent the parties to betray from their commitment at the coalition, as it had occurred during his five years term recently.
    Some economic experts here said that the continuation of President Susilo leadership at least could avoid the drastically change the government policy which is concerned to be poorly affected on investment climate. 
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