PKS targets 20 percent of votes, open for non-Muslim support

PKS targets 20 percent of votes, open for non-Muslim support

SANUR, Bali (JP): The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) announced it will target 20 percent of votes in the 2009 legislative election, and welcomes non-Muslim constituents, the party leader said here on Friday.
"We are quite optimistic after the results of the 146 regional direct elections in 2007, of which we won 86 independently and through coalitions," Party chairman Tifatul Sembiring told reporters Friday on the sidelines of the party's national meeting.

The meeting was attended by some 1,500 participants including party members and national figures, like People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Hidayat Nurwahid who previously chaired PKS.

The party had significantly increased its supporters at regional elections including those in Jakarta, Bekasi and Banten, Tifatul said.

In the first ever Jakarta gubernatorial election PKS gained some 42.5 percent of the vote, he said.

"We fought alone against a coalition of 21 parties (in the election)." (ira/**)

sumber : the Jakarta Post