The prediction is based on a political phenomenon and the results of a foreign survey agency."
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) analyst Ikrar Nusabhakti predicts the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) will sweep both legislative and presidential 2014 General Elections, if it carries Joko Widodo as a presidential candidate.

"The prediction is based on a political phenomenon and the results of a foreign survey agency," said Nusabhakti on Monday.

Nusabhakti added that the results of a foreign survey agency, published by a national daily newspaper, concluded that the current most popular presidential candidate is Jakarta`s Governor Joko Widodo, who is popularly called Jokowi.

"Then, if the PDIP ensures that it will carry Jokowi as a presidential candidate, it will have a chance to win 24 percent of votes in the legislative election," he said.

The survey results also mentioned that if PDIP carries Jokowi and pairs him up with the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Chief Patron Prabowo Subianto or the former Golkar Party Chairman Jusuf Kalla it will boost their chances to win the 2014 presidential election.

"They will win, as long as the Democratic Party presidential candidate convention does not produce a great figure," he said.

However, Nusabhakti warns that both possibilities have a different levels of resistance that need to be considered by PDIP.

The latest results of a suvey which is published by a national newspaper showed that if Jokowi pair up with Prabowo Subianto the resistance level is about six percent, while the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla partnership the resistance level is around one percent only.

"From the results, it is also shown a big number of swing voters, which are the voters who used to vote for Democratic Party and Properous Justice Party (PKS) will move their vote for PDIP and Jokowi," he said.

Nusabhakti also reminded the PDIP Chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri that it is not wrong to carry Jokowi as their party`s presidential candidate as long as it is appropriate time-wise.

(Reported by Riza Harahap/Uu.G006/INE/KR-BSR/H-YH)

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