Jakarta. The National Awakening Party (PKB) has announced its support for Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo’s bid for the presidency and will join a coalition with Joko’s party in the legislature.
“The PKB’s central board decided to support Joko Widodo in a plenary meeting which was held last night,” said Lukman Edy, deputy chairman of the PKB, as quoted by the state-run Antara news agency on Friday.
The PKB and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) have been courting each other in recent weeks after an underwhelming election performance by the PDI-P forced it to enter coalition negotiations in order to get over the required threshold.
Media mogul Surya Paloh and his new National Democrat Party (NasDem) immediately fell in line behind the popular governor, but Joko and the PDI-P needed to build a wider alliance prior to the presidential election on July 9.
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