The Democratic Party has found itself at the center of increasingly fluid alliance building ahead of the November deadline for presidential-candidate registration, with pro-government parties lining up to welcome the party into their respective folds despite the Dems’ commitment to backing the leading opposition figure.

The Democrats have already joined forces with the NasDem Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in an electoral alliance dubbed the Coalition for Change and Unity (KPP), which endorses former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan as its presumptive presidential candidate.

But the Democrats have been meeting with the pro-government parties, which are seeking to build bigger alliances and bring the largest opposition party into their respective electoral blocs.

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Yerica Lai (The Jakarta Post)

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