Tifatul Sembiring: Golkar-PKS will be a big Political Power

President of Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) Tifatul Sembiring said on thursday, February 26, 2009 that cooperation between two large parties Golkar and PKS can form a large and powerful political force. His statement was made after the Chairman of Golkar Jusuf Kalla visited PKS Headquarters in Jakarta last night. During the meeting of the two parties, Jusuf Kalla was paired with former Chairman of PKS Hidayat Nur Wahid as running mates for the coming Presidential Election on July 9, 2009.

Tifatul Sembiring said that so far in the Indonesian political environment there were only two blocks of political force, namely S-Block (referring to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) and M-Block (Megawati Sukarnoputri). With the new possible coalition between Golkar and PKS, there will be a new Block of political power that will compete with two others.

Acording to Tifatul Sembiring, Mr. Hidayat Nur Wahid so far is still the PKS candidate for the coming Presidential Election, however, a new cooperation is still open for negotiation between the two parties.

In the meantime, Jusuf Kalla said the his visit to PKS HQ is part of the probing for cooperation between Golkar and other parties. We are conducting a "fit-and-proper test".

In another development, Abdurrahman Wahid, Chairman of Nahdatul Ulama (NU) Supervisory Board and Chief Advisor of Partai Demokrasi Perjuangan (PDIP) Taufik Kiemas had agreed to conduct a "Second Ciganjur Meeting" between NU and PDIP to set up Presidential Election 2009 strategy.

With all Major Parties having their own Presidential Candidate, Hidayat Nur Wahid of PKS to be best choice Vice President

With the announcement of Chairman of Golkar Jusuf Kalla as Golkar's Presidential Candidate in 2009 Election, now every Major Parties will need a Vice Presidential running mate to be able to participate ini the July 2009 Presidential Election because of the requirement for each President/Vice President pair to be supported by 20% Parliamentary Vote support. The only major Party that had not annunce their own PresidentialCandidate is Partai Keadilan Sejahtera or PKS with Mr. Hidayat Nur Wahid as its Party's President.

As we all know that PKS, because of its good performance of its leaders and executives in the current Indonesian Parliament and Government for showing as clean and conducting good Governance, we all expect that in the coming Parliamentary Election on April 9, 2009 PKS will get a large votes of confidence from the people of Indonesia.

Thus whatever major Party who had its own Presidential Candidate for 2009 Presidential Election will have a good chance of winning the Election if they take Mr. Hidayat Nur Wahid of PKS as their Vice Presidential running mate. We will see in the coming weeks how the situation will change as predicted.