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Jokowi will win presidential election with any running mate: Survey
A survey by Cirus Surveyors Group has revealed that Jakarta Governor Joko âJokowiâ Widodo will claim victory in the 2014 presidential election with any running mate
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survey by Cirus Surveyors Group has revealed that Jakarta Governor Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo will claim victory in the 2014 presidential election with any running mate.
Cirus Surveyors executive director Adrianof Chaniago said on Saturday that based on a simulation, Jokowi would secure the presidential post if the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) endorsed him.
'Even if Jokowi was paired with the weakest vice presidential candidate, he would win the election,' said Adrianof as quoted by tribunnews.com
Adrianof said that in the first simulation, Jokowi was paired with leader of the PDI-P faction at the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani. Precisely 38.5 percent of respondents voted for this pair.
The second simulation paired Jokowi with former vice president Jusuf Kalla, a pairing which earned 52.8 percent of respondents' votes.
'We also paired Jokowi with Mahfud MD [former chief justice of the Constitutional Court]. The pair was voted for by 47.6 percent of respondents,' he said.
Cirus Surveyor also simulated a pairing between Jokowi with Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo and Coordinating Economic Minister Hatta Radjasa, which secured 43.5 percent and 44.7 percent of the vote, respectively.
The survey was conducted between Feb. 20 and Feb. 26 with 2,200 respondents aged 17 and older in 33 provinces.
'The margin error was approximately 2 percent with a 95 percent level of confidence,' he said. (idb/nvn)
