A woman holds her ballot paper during voting in the parliamentary elections at polling station in Jakarta April 9, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's likely next leader may have a bumpier-than-expected route to the presidential palace after early counting in Wednesday's parliamentary vote suggested his party will have to cut a deal with other parties to get him there in a July poll.
Early counts by pollsters show that the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) failed to win enough votes to nominate on its own hugely popular Jakarta governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for the powerful presidency.
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