Buying Cats Out of the Bag
It is like buying a cat in the sack. The idiom is commonly used to describe voting for legislative candidates in a general election.
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Independent panelists, consisting of a number of experts (from left) Hamdi Muluk, Bibit Samad Rianto, Mari Elka Pangestu, Neng Dara Affiah, Djayadi Hanan and Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) general chairperson Grace Natalie, after a press conference on screening for PSI legislative candidates at PSI\'s central executive board office in Jakarta on Saturday (4/11). About 200 PSI legislative member candidates will undergo screening. The move is intended to identify anticorruption and anti-intolerance figures.
It is like buying a cat in the sack. The idiom is commonly used to describe voting for legislative candidates in a general election.
Very often, the people do not know their candidates. The authority to select legislative candidates, according to Law No. 7/2017 on General Elections, lies with political parties.