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PKS, PPP told to get out of the government's bloc

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Jakarta Post - May 10, 2010

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A legislator from the Democratic Party says his party has had enough with the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the United Development Party (PPP) for tarnishing the solidity of the government's coalition bloc.

They [PKS and PPP] are very hard to manage. We prefer to have the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the National Awakening Party (PKB), because they have proven that they are good kids," Democratic Party's Ruhut Sitompul told reporters at the House of Representatives on Monday.

Ruhut also said the recent appointment of Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal Bakrie as chairman of the coalition's new joint secretariat was another effort for a reconciliation.

"We want to reconcile with Golkar because they are the second largest party, and even though they give us a hard time sometimes, but they are still more polite than PKS and PPP," he said. "Frankly, we just have enough with PKS and PPP."

PKS, PPP, and Golkar were three government coalition partners that took a different stance with that of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party on the Bank Century bailout case. The three parties deemed the bailout, which rose ten times to Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) as flawed.

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