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The National Mandate Party (PAN) will hold a national executive meeting at its headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday to officially announce its alliance with the Gerindra Party and the nomination of its chairman Hatta Rajasa as the running mate of Gerindra's presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto.

Prabowo was scheduled to attend the meeting, PAN deputy chairman Drajad Wibowo said. "He will arrive at 1 p.m. We will then officially announce our Prabowo-Hatta pair to contest the upcoming July 9 presidential election," he said.

Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will be declared officially inactive as Jakarta governor as of June 1. On the same day, he will be replaced by his deputy, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnawa, as acting Jakarta governor.

“In the existing law and government regulation [PP], it stipulates that any public official who is running for president must be inactive after the presidential candidacy is registered with the General Elections Commission (KPU),” said Ahok, after speaking with Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi in a meeting also attended by Jokowi on Wednesday, as quoted by kompas.com.

Democratic Party honor council chief Amir Syamsuddin says his party is eyeing Golkar Party figure Sultan Hamengkubuwono X as a presidential candidate in the 2014 presidential race.

He said the reason for sultan’s selection was that his electability could compete with the two other probable presidential candidates, namely the Gerindra Party’s Prabowo Subianto and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) said on Tuesday that it was ready to fight a protracted legal battle at the Constitutional Court, now that all but one of the political parties that contested the 2014 legislative election had filed election disputes with the court.

KPU commissioner Arief Budiman said the commission would be establishing three teams of lawyers to represent the KPU in front of three panels of justices.

Researchers from the University of Indonesia’s (UI) Center for Political Studies found in a recent survey that women would be less represented among the next batch of lawmakers. 

The center’s data showed that women may only achieve 14 percent of the total number of seats in the House of Representatives after the latest legislative election, compared to the 18 percent achieved in the 2009 election.

The think tank attributed the decline to internal party policies that push women to secure greater representation in the House.

PUTRAJAYA: Former Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said is expected to retract his resignation from Umno, said his successor Datuk Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman.

Ahmad Razif said this is in a press conference after meeting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the latter's office here, Wednesday.

“Insyallah, it will be status quo and we will maintain our 17 representatives (in the state assembly),” he said.

The political situation in the state was earlier feared critical following a series of resignations led by Kijal assemblyman Ahmad on Monday.

Le ministre de la Justice a invoqué l’intérêt d’améliorer l’administration de la justice pour expliquer ce redéploiement de grande ampleur des magistrats

Les nominations et les mutations des magistrats du parquet et des juges de paix à compétence étendue étaient l’ordre du jour du Conseil supérieur de la magistrature qui s’est réuni hier à Koulouba autour de son président, le chef de l’Etat, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita. La séance s’est tenue à huis clos en présence des 23 membres que compte le Conseil.

La salle Aoua Keita de l’Assemblée nationale a abrité du 6 au 7 mai 2014 un séminaire dont le thème portait sur le statut et le renforcement des capacités du député pour le contrôle de l’action gouvernementale.

Le président des Forces alternatives pour le renouveau et l’émergence (Fare-Anka Wuli), Modibo Sidibé, a bouclé sa série de rencontres avec les militants des six Communes du District de Bamako. Le samedi 10 mai 2014, Modibo Sidibé, accompagné par une forte délégation du Secrétariat exécutif national des Fare, a été reçu par les militants de la Commune III au Carrefour des jeunes et ceux de la Commune VI à la Cité des enfants.