A recent survey has found that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is still a frontrunner for the 2024 elections, following the party’s formal nomination of popular Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo as its presidential candidate prior to Idul Fitri.

However, the poll from Litbang Kompas, the research arm of Kompas daily, showed that the second-place Gerindra Party was closing the electability gap and that the PDI-P had lost ground in the “favorability” metric.

Conducted from April 29 to May 10, roughly a week after Ganjar’s nomination, the survey polled 1,200 respondents from across the country on which party they would vote for and whether they were favorably disposed toward particular parties.

Some 23.3 percent of respondents said they would vote for the PDI-P if the legislative election were held today, with the party diverging little from the 22.9 percent rating it had in January. Meanwhile, Gerindra saw a sizable bump in the same metric, from 14.3 percent in January to 18.6 percent in May.

Gerindra’s rising electability is coupled with the improving prospects of Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential race. On Friday, several supporter groups from Central Java and East Java that had supported President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakubuming Raka, the President’s eldest son, declared their support for the defense minister.

Both the President and Gibran are members of the PDI-P, and the expectation is that their supporters will be inclined to vote for Ganjar, the party’s candidate.

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