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Megawati rejects Indonesian presidential poll
AFP - Friday, July 10
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri's campaign team refused to concede defeat to an apparent landslide election win by incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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The Megawati camp alleges widespread fraud in the Wednesday vote, including millions of fake voters, after a provisional official count giving Yudhoyono 61.88 percent of the vote to Megawati's 28.57 percent.
"It seems that SBY has the compelling urge to be congratulated," Megawati campaign spokesman Aria Bima told AFP, referring to the president by his nickname.
"We're reluctant to congratulate SBY because we're still waiting for the final official results from the electoral commission."
Megawati's running mate and ex-special forces chief Prabowo Subianto has said the campaign was preparing legal action over alleged fraud, while Megawati has denounced the poll as an exercise in "pseudo-democracy".
"We're still counting an accumulation of violations regarding voters being registered twice, children on the electoral rolls and vote counting irregularities. We'll report this to the supervisory body," Bima said.
Despite the allegations, most political analysts say the election was largely free and fair and that Yudhoyono's apparent victory was so big as to make any voter list irregularities irrelevant.
Economic and political stability during the president's four-and-a-half year term -- as well as well-timed direct cash payments to the poor and fuel price cuts -- are generally credited with cementing the president's popularity.
Yudhoyono himself has avoided explicitly claiming victory, but made a show to the media Thursday of announcing a congratulatory telephone call from his other poll rival, incumbent Vice President Jusuf Kalla.
He has also said he has received calls of congratulations from world leaders including Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Speculation has already begun on the shape of a future Yudhoyono cabinet and the constellation of parties set to join his governing coalition.
Legislative elections in April saw his Democratic Party leap from relative obscurity to become the largest party in parliament, raising hopes he will use his victory to appoint capable technocrats to his cabinet and deepen efforts to fight entrenched corruption.
Democratic Party deputy chairman Anas Urbaningrum left the door open to Megawati's Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Kalla's Golkar entering a Yudhoyono cabinet, but said a concession of defeat from Megawati would be "sweet".
"It'll be a brilliant lesson in democracy if Megawati congratulates (Yudhoyono). It can be an example of mature and noble behavior. Winning and losing is a natural process in a democracy," Urbaningrum said.
Megawati reportedly never congratulated Yudhoyono after he unseated her by a landslide in the country's first direct presidential election in 2004, and refused to talk to him until the current campaign.
Kalla campaign spokesman Yuddy Chrisnandi said it was too early to say if Golkar would consider siding with Yudhoyono in his second term.
Secular reformists are concerned a second Yudhoyono administration could be too beholden to the Islamic parties who backed him during his campaign.
Yudhoyono was criticised for caving in to hardliners in his first term over his decision to restrict the minority Ahmadiyah Muslim sect and the passage of a harsh anti-pornography law deemed a threat to religious and cultural minorities.
The inclusion of the nationalist PDI-P or Golkar could dilute the Islamic parties' influence in a new Yudhoyono government.
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