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The Democratic Party has been going all out in its attempt to win the support of rival parties ahead of the two-day House of Representatives plenary session convening today to discuss the inquiry into the Bank Century bailout.

Ahmad Mubarok, deputy chairman of the Democratic Party, said on Monday that a “coalition meeting” involving senior members of the other parties in the ruling coalition was held on Sunday at the official residence of Syarif Hasan, the state minister for cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, who is also a Democrat.

“We have the right to call for a meeting because we lead this coalition,” Ahmad said.

He conceded that some coalition partners — namely the Golkar Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) — did not share the Democrats’ views about the bailout and that the meeting was aimed at arriving at a common understanding on some of the more contentious issues.

PKS lawmaker Mahfudz Siddiq, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives special committee investigating the bailout, confirmed that the Democrats attempted to sway those coalition partners that believed Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati had acted illegally in the bailout.

Mahfudz said that although the relationship between the PKS and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democrats remained as “intimate as ever,” they would continue to argue that the bailout was illegal.

One of Yudhoyono’s special advisers, Denny Indrayana, has said publicly that some parties attempted to use the Century case for their own interests during the coalition meeting.