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Jokowi's candidacy is still conjecture: Expert
Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) researcher Adjie Alfaraby has said that despite his high electability as a presidential candidate, it could not be automatically assumed that Jakarta Governor Joko âJokowiâ Widodo would be nominated as a presidential candidate for the 2014 election
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ndonesian Survey Circle (LSI) researcher Adjie Alfaraby has said that despite his high electability as a presidential candidate, it could not be automatically assumed that Jakarta Governor Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo would be nominated as a presidential candidate for the 2014 election.
He said the chance that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) would nominate Jokowi as the party's presidential candidate was small and that all discussions on the subject until now were only a matter of public conjecture.
Adjie said it was unlikely that Jokowi would become a presidential candidate as he was not part of the PDI-P's leadership structure.
Based on experience from the 2004 and 2009 elections, a political party tends to nominate its chairperson or someone who holds a position in the party's bureaucratic structure as its presidential candidate.
'Jokowi as a presidential candidate is still up in the air. Jokowi is not a leader of any party's bureaucratic structure, so his nomination will depend on the goodness of someone's heart or a coalition of parties outside the PDI-P,' Adjie said in Jakarta on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.
He added, however, that Jokowi had a great chance of being nominated as a vice-presidential candidate.
With an above-average electability rating, Jokowi is considered to have the capacity to boost the number of votes for the presidential candidate he runs alongside.
'Jokowi could become a vice-presidential candidate and, as such, he could partner with anyone,' Adjie concluded. (ebf)
