Electability Drops, Anies Admits He Believes In PKB Deputy Words More Than Survey Results

Anies Baswedan met Cak Imin during a visit to the PKB DPP Office, Central Jakarta, Monday, September 11, afternoon. (Nailin-VOI)

JAKARTA - The candidate for president (candidate) of the Change Coalition, Anies Baswedan, responded casually to the results of a number of survey institutions that put their electability in the most distended order. In fact, there is a survey agency that predicts the Anies-Muhaimin (Amin) pair will not pass the first round in the 2024 General Election. Anies admitted that he believes more in the statement of the Deputy of PKB, Jazilul Fawaid, which is inversely proportional to the survey results. Jazilul said that Amin has the potential to win the 2024 presidential election in one round. According to Anies, the prediction of survey institutions related to democratic parties could be different from the actual situation.

"I trust Gus Jazilul more than the survey results," said Anies in Jakarta, Friday, October 6.

The former governor of DKI Jakarta said surveys would continue to exist and always take pictures of conditions when the survey was conducted. However, in the survey, many people have not made a decision or choice. Those who have not chosen, said Anies, may be different from the results of the survey institute. Like during the 2017 Pilkada, said Anies, he could win the contestation even though when the survey was never in the top position. Therefore, Anies emphasized that currently his party is more focused on sending messages about changes, rather than responding to the results of survey institutions.

"But never asked, how come there are still many who have not made a decision. We also feel that in Jakarta, the experience of the Pilkada in Jakarta, none of the surveys predict us to be winners," said Anies.

Previously, the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) placed Prabowo Subianto ahead of Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan in a simulation of three presidential candidates carried out on September 18-20, 2023.

LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan said that in the simulation on three names, Prabowo Subianto was the most chosen by 34 percent of respondents, while Ganjar Pranowo was 30.4 percent. Meanwhile, Anies Baswedan was 22 percent and around 13.6 percent of respondents did not show their choice.

Surveys according to the Prabowo Subianto region excel in Sumatra, West Java, Bali Nusa, and Kalimantan. Then Ganjar excels in DKI, Central Java DIY, East Java, and Maluku and Papua.

Meanwhile, Anies excels in Sulawesi. In Banten, Ganjar and Prabowo are balanced.

Then the results of the LSI survey presented at an online meeting in Jakarta, Wednesday, October 4, stated that if a spontaneous election was carried out and the result was Ganjar Pranowo, the most chose was 25.5 percent followed by Prabowo Subianto 23.3 percent, Anies Baswedan 13.2 percent of other names were lower and those who had not made a choice of 30.8 percent.