The National Mandate Party said on Tuesday that it was not expecting to nominate a presidential candidate in the upcoming election, and that it was considering a vice-presidential berth attached to Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) head Prabowo Subianto’s potenial candidacy.
“If we can’t reach [20 percent of seats in the house of representative — the threshold for eligibility in the presidential elections], we have to combine with another party,” said National Mandate Party (PAN) deputy secretary, Herman Kadir. “For instance, if we join with [Gerindra], PAN has to be realistic and take the second position.”
PAN chairman Hatta Rajasa would not seek a presidential nomination if the party fared poorly in the upcoming legislative elections, Herman said.
Herman said that PAN and Gerindra would make a good coalition — with Prabowo as the presidential candidate and Hatta as his running mate.
“This republic still needs a military [leader] because there are many strong separatist movements and chaos,” Herman said. “Who will handle them but the military?”
The Golkar party was forecast to win the highest percentage of the vote — 18.3 percent — neck and neck with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which was forecast to win around 18.2 percent, according to a survey released on Sunday by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI). Gerindra was predicted to come in third, with 8.7 percent of total votes. The ruling Democratic Party was predicted to finish in fourth place with 4.7 percent and PAN was set to gain 3.3 percent of the vote.
“Golkar is likely to nominate its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, while PDI-P might nominate Megawati or Jokowi [Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo],” said LSI researcher Adjie Alfaraby, as quoted by news portal Kompas.com.
LSI conducted the survey between Jan. 6 and 16, interviewing 1,200 respondents.
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Author/Autor: Markus Junianto
