Jakarta (Antara) - Regional Representatives Council (DPD) Chairman Irman Gusman said he was ready to take part in the Democratic Party (PD) presidential candidate convention. "I see that the Democratic Party is serious in preparing a presidential candidate convention. So, I am also preparing myself to take part in it seriously," Irman Gusman said at the parliament building here on Wednesday. According to Irman, PD General Chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has announced the main agenda and seven criteria for its presidential candidate on the seventh day of the seventh month (July 7, 2013). After all, the convention is organized by PD, a political party whose sequence number in the coming general elections (next year) is seven. "This could be a good luck for me because all is in seven. The police number of my official car is RI (Republic of Indonesia) 7. This is numerology," he said. The Democratic Party will announce participants of its national convention to nominate a candidate for the 2014 presidential election in late August 2013, its party chief said. "The participants of the convention will be made public at the end of August 2013. God willing, the committee will announce who will be the participants," Chief of the Democratic Party Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday night. The convention will be semi-open, meaning that the participants may come from party cadres and non-cadre aspirants, he said. To organize the convention, he said he will set up a convention committee to select competent participants. The committee will be jointly led by a party figure and independent figure who will be responsible to the party's supreme council. (*)

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