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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 20:37
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NEED NOT FORM SHADOW CABINETS : OBSERVER
Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - It is not necessary for presidential candidates Megawati Soekarnoputri, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla to form shadow cabinets, an observer said.
"To support their performance when they are elected president, the presidential candidates do not need to form shadow cabinets because doing so is risky," political observer from the University of Indonesia Arbi Sanit said here on Wednesday.
He said if the presidential aspirants formed shadow cabinets now and failed to actualize them when they were elected president, they would have serious problem on their hands.
"If the persons in the shadow cabinet are not accepted by all parties including their coalition parties, it will certainly be a big problem," Arbi Sanit said.
Asked about the consequence from the coalition parties which were offered seats in the cabinet, Arbi Sanit said it was a political compromise by selling cabinet seats.
He said the formation of shadow cabinets was a bad system that would later produce a weak government.
"It is the same as political compromise to betray the 1945 Constitution," he said.
Meanwhile, Government Watch (GOWA) executive secretary Andi Syahputra said it was irrelevant if the presidential candidates formed shadow cabinets as part of their preparations to being elected as president in the upcoming July 8 presidential election.
He said forming shadow cabinets would compromise the candidate's performance as president.
However, he added that each presidential candidate certainly had his or her own human resources who had been prepared to occupy cabinet seats.
"If the shadow cabinet is formed earlier, the presidential candidates who fail in the election will feel disappointed and cause problems that can jeopardize national security and stability," Arbi Sanit said.
Meanwhile, political observer from Gajah Mada University Arie Sujito said in Yogyakarta recently that forming a shadow cabinet in a bid to attract the attention of voters in the July election would not be very effective.
"In my opinion, forming a shadow cabinet will not be very effective because the people at grass-root level have yet to become accustomed to such a strategy," he said.
"To support their performance when they are elected president, the presidential candidates do not need to form shadow cabinets because doing so is risky," political observer from the University of Indonesia Arbi Sanit said here on Wednesday.
He said if the presidential aspirants formed shadow cabinets now and failed to actualize them when they were elected president, they would have serious problem on their hands.
"If the persons in the shadow cabinet are not accepted by all parties including their coalition parties, it will certainly be a big problem," Arbi Sanit said.
Asked about the consequence from the coalition parties which were offered seats in the cabinet, Arbi Sanit said it was a political compromise by selling cabinet seats.
He said the formation of shadow cabinets was a bad system that would later produce a weak government.
"It is the same as political compromise to betray the 1945 Constitution," he said.
Meanwhile, Government Watch (GOWA) executive secretary Andi Syahputra said it was irrelevant if the presidential candidates formed shadow cabinets as part of their preparations to being elected as president in the upcoming July 8 presidential election.
He said forming shadow cabinets would compromise the candidate's performance as president.
However, he added that each presidential candidate certainly had his or her own human resources who had been prepared to occupy cabinet seats.
"If the shadow cabinet is formed earlier, the presidential candidates who fail in the election will feel disappointed and cause problems that can jeopardize national security and stability," Arbi Sanit said.
Meanwhile, political observer from Gajah Mada University Arie Sujito said in Yogyakarta recently that forming a shadow cabinet in a bid to attract the attention of voters in the July election would not be very effective.
"In my opinion, forming a shadow cabinet will not be very effective because the people at grass-root level have yet to become accustomed to such a strategy," he said.
