"It will all depend on whether the nation still needs a figure like him or not. Let us just wait and see," he said here on Saturday.
The survey mechanism to be used by the Golkar Party to select a candidate provides an opportunity for Jusuf Kalla to be nominated by the party to become its candidate for the presidential election in 2014.
Golkar Party secretary general Idrus Marham said earlier the survey would be open for all figures including Jusuf Kalla as a former party general chairman.
If his popularity and electability is high he may be put under consideration, he said.
Marham however said he was still optimistic current Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie would be ranked higher in the survey.
He said Jusuf Kalla`s promotion was mere an opinion from certain elite numbering less than 20 percent. The opinion will not always be in line with the aspiration of the people reaching 80 percent.
Marham said his side would not like to see the past problem to happen again in which a presidential candidate had been too late to conduct familiarization and communication with the people.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would end his term in 2014 and by law he could not be reelected as he has already been in the post two times.
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