Security guards walk in front of flags of political parties participating in the 2024 General Elections at the General Elections Commission headquarters in Jakarta. - Antara
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia New Network): Political party elites have revived the idea of forming a big-tent coalition in order to have a two-horse race in the upcoming presidential election, after the poll organiser officially moved the registration deadline from late November to late October.
The proposal to have only two pairs of candidates contesting the Feb 14 election, which would be intended to save the country from having to hold a costly runoff election, had appeared dead after the pro-government parties, particularly the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Gerindra Party, failed to agree on which party would get the presidential slot on the ticket, the PDI-P’s Ganjar Pranowo or Gerindra’s Prabowo Subianto.
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