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Indonesian oppon party leads parliamentary poll

BBC Online :
Indonesia’s opposition Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) leads parliamentary polls but its star candidate may face a tougher path to the presidency, early election results indicate. The party secured about 19% of the vote, unofficial tallies show.
But it is not clear if it will meet the 25% voting threshold to enter Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo in the 9 July presidential election by itself.
The official election results will be announced in May.
Some 19,000 seats were contested across Indonesia in Wednesday’s polls, including the 560 seats in the national parliament.
A poll by Jakarta think tank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), put the opposition Golkar party in second place with 14% of the vote, followed by the Great Indonesia Movement Party with 12%.
Islamic parties also appeared to have performed better than expected, together grabbing about a third of the national vote.