Jakarta – The political parties contesting the 2004 general election will not be allowed to file the names of any more legislative candidates following the expiry of the deadline on Monday, December 29 at 12 midnight.

"The parties will only be allowed to correct or complete the documents they have sent to meet the requirements, but they will not be allowed to register any more legislative candidates," General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin said here on Tuesday.

All of the 24 parties contesting the election filed their lists of House candidates with the commission by the December 29, 2003, deadline.

According to Nazaruddin, the commission, which has set up 12 sub working groups, will immediately examine the extent to which the documents that had been lodged met the requirements.

If the commission found shortcomings in the documents, Nazaruddin said the parties would be given 14 days to correct them.

He further said that the parties would be allowed to corrected the documents up until January 19, 2004, with the commission announcing the names of the legislative candidates on January 27, 2004.

He said that not all of the parties had registered the maximum number of legislative candidates permitted, that is, 660, or 120 percent of the 550 seats being contested in the House of Representatives.

He also disclosed that not all the parties had registered legislative candidates in 69 House electoral areas in 32 provinces.