Amien Rais: "I may run for the next presidency"

September 18, 2001

Amien `the kingmaker' Rais is now preparing to make himself a `king'. The Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) and chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN) confirmed that he would run for the Indonesian presidency in 2004—provided his party gets at least 20 percent of the votes in the next general election. "And provided I remain in good health and am not gone by then," quipped Amien, a professor of political sc

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