JAKARTA -The camp of Indonesia’s incoming president Prabowo Subianto has made early moves to build a ruling coalition that will command a big majority in Parliament to ensure he will have a stable government, according to people who followed the discussions.
The political parties that backed Mr Prabowo’s ticket in the Feb 14 presidential election – Gerindra, Golkar, Democratic Party and National Mandate Party – would likely have only about 43 per cent of the total 580 Parliament seats, the latest vote counting shows.
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