"Pragmatism will become the basis of political parties consideration in forming a coalition after the unofficial results of quick counts on last Wednesdays legislative election map out their vote gains," Political Observer Dr Syarief Makhya MP of the University of Lampung, said here on Sunday.
He said that the result of the quick counts indicated that only the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) could nominate its own presidential candidate.
It can nominate its presidential candidate if the 19 percent votes it gained in the legislative elections could earn it at least 116 seats of the 560 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR).
"If the votes it has gained in the legislative elections could not be converted into a minimum presidential threshold of 20 percent seats, PDIP will be required to set up a coalition with other political parties," Syarief Makhya said.
He predicted that there were three presidential candidates who would form a coalition before they could run for the presidential race next July 9, 2014.
The three presidential candidates are popular Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, of the PDIP, Prabowo Subianto of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) and Aburizal Bakri, who is intimately called Ical, of the Golkar Party.
Syarief said the formation of the coalitions inclined to be based on rational considerations, namely the potential of real supports and pragmatism rather than on ideology.
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