The National Election Committee will on Monday reveal the names of political parties that passed the factual verification process to participate in the April 2014 legislative election.

The factual verification process has been carried out on the provincial level to validate the claims of 34 political parties that had previously passed the administrative verification process.

Analysts said that a maximum of 10 parties will pass the factual verification process – nine are the parties currently represented in the House of Representatives and the other is the National Democrat Party (NasDem).

The nine parties in the House are the ruling Democratic Party, Golkar Party, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), National Mandate Party (PAN), United Development Party (PPP), National Awakening Party (PKB), Great Indonesia Party (Gerindra), and People's Conscience Party (Hanura).

According to the election law, only a party that can pass the factual verification process in all 33 provinces will be allowed to participate in the election.

Ten parties participating in the 2014 election is indicative of progress in simplifying the election system. During the 2009 national elections, 38 parties took part along with six local parties. During the 2004 elections, 24 parties took part, and during the 1999 elections, 48 parties were in the race.

But analysts said that the relationship between the legislative and executive powers will still be marked with tension after next year's elections because the number of political parties is still too high. Even with nine parties in the House, the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has had lots of headaches in passing legislation.

In other words, a joint secretariat, or Setgab, will need to be set up like the one currently functioning and the next president will still have to accommodate a "rainbow cabinet" that would slow his decision-making.

Therefore the next president must be a courageous leader who can remain consistent with the presidential cabinet system rather than bowing to pressure to set up a compromise cabinet, political analysts said.

They added that one of the reasons why the current president has in many cases had difficulty pushing his agenda forward is the "uncooperative" attitude of House members, even though their parties are represented in the cabinet.

The president has several times challenged ministers from political parties to resign if they focused more on their parties' interests rather than that of the nation.

Now that parties are preparing for the next election, their ministers may be busy searching for ways to secure a good exit strategy rather than being too serious about fulfilling their duties. This is part of the reason why pressure is now building for a cabinet reshuffle ahead of the election, though few people believe the president has the courage to do so.