DEMOCRATIC PARTY GRABS 148 SEATS, GOLKAR RECEIVES 108 SEATS

Jakarta, May 10 (ANTARA) - The General Election Commission (KPU) here on Sunday announced the distribution of seats at the House of Representatives (DPR) to nine political parties which had successfully passed a 2.5 percent parliamentary threshold of the legitimate national votes.
The Democratic Party in the first rank succeeded in getting 148 seats or about 26.43 percent of the total seats at the house which is standing at 560 seats, while Golkar Party grabbed the second position with 108 seats or 19.29 percent.
In the meantime, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) received 93 seats or 16.61 percent, followed by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) with 59 seats or 10.54 percent, the National Mandate Party (PAN) with 42 seats or 7.50 percent.

Furthermore, the United Development Party (PPP) was only able to get 39 seats or 6.96 percent, followed by the Greater Indonesian Movement Party (Gerindra) with 30 seats or 5.36 percent, the National Awakening Party with 26 seats or 4.64 percent and the People's Conscience Party (Hanura) with 15 seats or 2.68 percent.

The announcement on the results of seat tally was directly unveiled by KPU Chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary in the company of the whole other officials and witnesses of political parties.
On the same occasion, Secretary General of the Democratic Party Marzuki Alie said accordingly KPU should actually announce the seat tally for the House (DPR) in each region of the election, but not only the whole seat tally.

By doing so, each political party could know the tally of seats in each electoral region in addition to verifying the truth of counting conducted by KPU.

Asked whether there was a difference in the number of seats announced by KPU with that of internal counting conducted by the Democratic Party, Marzuki admitted there was a slight difference.

"The Democratic Party has counted 150 seats to be gained, but KPU only sets 148 seats," he said.***1***