Indonesia General Elections to be moved to Either April 8 or 9, 2009

Indonesia's General Electoral Commission announced it would move the country's upcoming legislative election, originally scheduled for April 5, 2009 to either April 8 or 9 of the same year. The change comes following a request from several political parties that the Commission move the originally set date, which fell on a Sunday. Some 51 parties are eligible to run candidates in the legislative elections, due to having won sufficient votes to surpass eligibility thresholds in previous local elections. Indonesia's legislature is currently debating the threshold that political parties would have to pass in the April 5 legislative elections in order to be eligible to run candidates in the July 2009 presidential elections.

Source: ElectionGuide