The Islam-linked United Development Party, the military, Golkar and the PDI-P each now has one minister fewer than before.

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These advantages may make it easier for Golkar to cut a deal with a number of Islamist parties, led by the United Development Party.

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These include Islamist groups, led by the United Development Party, as well as two strong parties with secular factions: Amien Rais's National Mandate Party and Abdurrahman Wahid's National Awakening Party.

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At stake is whether the two smaller parties -- the United Development Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party -- could win enough seats to influence the choice of president and vice-president in March 1988.

CNN: ELECTIONS

Habibie one day, then the next with fellow Muslim oppositionist Amien Rais of the National Mandate Party (PAN in Indonesian) as well as Muslim-linked United Development Party (PPP) head Hamzah Haz, whose party is expected to ally with Habibie's ruling Golkar.

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Early results showed him and his United Party for National Development doing well in Lusaka, other towns, and in the south of the country.

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