Filling the vacant seat of a deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) should not ordinarily be a problem. There are seven deputy speakers—which is already too many—working alongside the MPR speaker. Constitutionally speaking, the office of the deputy speaker is of no great consequence. But news of the appointment of K.H. Cholil Bisri from one faction of the National Awakening Party (PKB) to the office of deputy