REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDAR LAMPUNG - A political observer has predicted that political parties will base their considerations on pragmatism and realistic support rather than on ideology in forming a coalition.

"Pragmatism will become the basis of political parties consideration in forming a coalition after the unofficial results of quick counts on last Wednesdays legislative election map out their vote gains," political analyst of the University of Lampung, Dr Syarief Makhya, MP, said on Sunday.

He said that the result of the quick counts indicated that only the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) could nominate its own presidential candidate. It can nominate its presidential candidate if the 19 percent votes it gained in the legislative elections could earn it at least 116 seats of the 560 seats in the House of Representatives (DPR).

"If the votes it has gained in the legislative elections could not be converted into a minimum presidential threshold of 20 percent seats, PDIP will be required to set up a coalition with other political parties," Makhya said.

He predicted that there were three presidential candidates who would form a coalition before they could run for the presidential race next July 9, 2014. The three presidential candidates are popular Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, of the PDIP, Prabowo Subianto of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) and Aburizal Bakri, intimately called Ical, of the Golkar Party.

Makhya said the formation of the coalitions inclined to be based on rational considerations, namely the potential of real supports and pragmatism rather than on ideology.

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