Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Islam-based United Development Party (PPP) Chairman Suryadharma Ali said the party would let President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reshuffle his cabinet ministers if the president thought it was necessary.

"The matter is the president`s prerogative. If the president thought it was necessary, we have to leave it to him because it is his right to do so," the PPP general chairman said here on Sunday.

Ali, whose party (PPP) is one of the political parties in coalition with the Yudhoyono government, made the remarks in response to a discourse on a proposal that Yudhoyono reshuffle his cabinet ministers.

The PPP chairman said his party could not interfere. "The president has the right to replace his ministers if he thinks they are incapable," he said.

Asked whether PPP would withdraw its support for the government if its cadre was to be replaced from a ministerial post in the cabinet, the PPP chairman said PPP would not make a prediction.

"One should not make such a prediction. We just have to wait and see," he said.
The Democratic Party (PD), the coalition leader of the Yudhoyono government, has officially proposed to the president that he should reshuffle his cabinet.

DP Secretary General Amir Syamsuddin said he and PD House faction chairman Anas Urbaningrum and PD associate chairman Jafar Hafsah had made the proposal to the president on Thursday (Feb 4).

He said that the proposal was made in connection with PD`s disappointment over the attitude of a number of coalition parties which was not in line with that of the PD with regard to the Bank Century bailout issue.

The political parties whose attitude towards the Bank Century case were not in line with that of PD were particularly the Golkar Party and the Justice and Prosperous Party (PKS).

A House inquiry committee is probing into the Bank Century bailout case which involves Rp6.7 trillion.(*)