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Prabowo, Wiranto compete to be most electable in 2014

Looking good: A chart showing the electability ratings of presidential candidates released by the pollster Political Climatology Institute (LKP) is obscured by a cameraman during the a press briefing to announce the result of the outfit’s opinion poll on Sunday

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Mon, April 29, 2013

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Prabowo, Wiranto compete to be most electable in 2014

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span class="inline inline-center">Looking good: A chart showing the electability ratings of presidential candidates released by the pollster Political Climatology Institute (LKP) is obscured by a cameraman during the a press briefing to announce the result of the outfit'€™s opinion poll on Sunday. In the survey, chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Lt. Gen. (ret) Prabowo Subianto tops the list as the most electable candidate. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama

A new survey has found that chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Lt. Gen. (ret) Prabowo Subianto and chairman of the People'€™s Conscience (Hanura) Party Gen. (ret) Wiranto finished first and second in a list of the most preferable candidates for the 2014 presidential election.

The survey, conducted by a think tank called the Political Climatology Institute (LKP), found that if a presidential election were to take place today, Prabowo and Wiranto would receive 19.8 percent and 15.4 percent of the vote, respectively.

The survey highlights that the impressive showing of the two politicians was helped by the fact that their political parties were newcomers and had yet to become entangled in corruption.

'€œBoth Gerindra and Hanura are outside the system and this has helped them get recognition from voters for a good cause. Both parties are not yet involved in corruption and other problems,'€ chief executive officer of the LKP Usman Rachman said in a press briefing on Sunday.

Usman added the two politicians also benefitted from the fact that they were former Army generals who were considered to have the pedigrees to become strong leaders.

'€œBoth are generals who are deemed to have knowledge of the country'€™s territorial condition. They are also considered able to be tough leaders,'€ Usman said.

For the survey, the LPK interviewed 1,225 respondents in the country'€™s 33 provinces between 20 March and 30 March. The margin of error in the survey was 2.8 percent.

The survey also found that chairman of the Golkar Party Aburizal Bakrie was more popular than the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri. More than 14 percent of the survey'€™s respondents said they would vote for Aburizal if a presidential poll were to take place today, against 13.3 percent who said they would vote for Megawati.

Other pollsters recently found that Megawati'€™s electability rating continued to improve while that of Aburizal hovered in single digits.

Analysts said Aburizal'€™s shot at the presidency would continue to be dogged by the involvement of his company in the Lapindo mudflow incident and tax evasion charges.

The LPK survey also showed that other politicians such as Coordinating Economic Minister Hatta Radjasa and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono continued to register low electability ratings.

Jakarta Governor Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo remained a popular candidate. More than 24 percent of respondents said they would vote for Jokowi as a vice presidential candidate.

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