JAKARTA, JUNE 10: Indonesia's ruling party, labelled a deserved loser before Monday's national election, today sensed a chance to hang on to power.Vote counting so far, albeit agonisingly slow, put Golkar in second or third place. One projection gave it enough seats to form a coalition government."I think it's no problem (for form a government)," Golkar party treasurer Fadel Muhammad told reporters."I think we can form a coalition with any party we feel has the same platform and which is willing to have president Habibie as their president".Only about 10 per cent of the more than 100 million registered votes have been counted so far.An unofficial tally by the joint operations and media center gives Golkar 21 per cent of the vote, putting it second behind Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P).It also projects that Golkar could grab 101 of the 462 parliamentary seats on offer, not far behind PDI-P's 140.The official vote count gives Golkar 16 per cent of the vote and puts it third behind another opposition party. Both offical and unofficial tallies put PDI-P in the lead."Thirty per cent (of seats) would make it more flexible for us to manoeuvre," Fadel said, but insisted the figure was a hope and not yet a party projection.
