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TIME.com: Indonesia's beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid on Friday offered to share power with his more popular deputy, Megawati Sukarnoputri, but she turned him down. With the military backing Megawati and the political elite having turned on Wahid, how long can the president hold...
...McGirk: Indonesia's parliament is to decide next week whether to convene a special session to impeach President Wahid, and they're almost certain to go ahead. That special session is likely to go ahead in July or August. Until then, Wahid will be doing everything in his power to win support from other parties. His own party controls only 10 percent of the seats, and he won the presidency with support from other parties who wanted to keep out Megawati, who won the most votes in the election. But his prospects of winning the support necessary to stay...
...simply opportunism. They realize that Wahid will fall, and believe that if they ally themselves with Megawati, who is fairly malleable, they'll get more in terms of cabinet seats and plush appointments. And they're also gambling that Megawati is very weak, and that she won't last very long, either. Then, other contenders will take advantage of the ensuing chaos to make their own bid for power...
...INDONESIA Censured The impeachment of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid looked increasingly likely following his weak response to a second parliamentary censure for alleged corruption. In a speech, Wahid failed to respond to accusations of financial irregularities, and opposition leaders dismissed plans for a cabinet reshuffle as "useless...
...Wahid himself, of course, was always something of a compromise candidate, an interim figure chosen to preside over a fractious field in which no single leader had emerged with enough strength to claim the political spoils of Suharto's ouster. Now, it appears that his interim may be coming to an end, and Indonesia's politicians are preparing for yet another year of living dangerously...