PSI Unstoppable In Voxpopuli Survey, Ummat And Gelora Party Starts Threatening PKS-PAN

JAKARTA - The electability of the Partai Solidaritas Indonesia (PSI) Party is unstoppable in a survey conducted by the Voxpopuli Research Center. The party with the fist logo holding the red rose was able to penetrate the 5 percent mark.

"PSI has reached 5 percent electability, while parties are just starting to grow", said Director of Communications at the Voxpopuli Research Center Achmad Subadja in a written statement, Antara, Thursday, August 26.

Besides PSI, surprises also came from several newcomer parties, such as the Ummat Party, 1.5 percent, and Gelora 1.0 percent. Still based on the survey, PDIP has the highest electability of any other party with a 15.8 percent gain, followed by Gerindra in second place with 13.5 percent.

No less important, he said, was that the Democratic Party was in the top three with 11.2 percent of electability.

According to Achmad, the significant increase in the electability of Democrats poses a threat to the two main parties of the government coalition, PDIP, and Gerindra.

"Democrats managed to overtake Golkar, which is usually in third place. Golkar's electability is relatively stable at 8.8 percent", he said.

He argues that the party with the symbol of mercy has now become a symbol of the opposition. Any criticism of the government's performance tends to be favorable for the increase in the electability of the Democratic Party.

Not only PDIP, Gerindra, Democrat, and Golkar, the Voxpopuli Research Center also displays the results of other parties, namely PKB 6.1 percent, PKS 4.9 percent, NasDem 3.7 percent, and PPP 2.0 percent.

"The Ummat and Gelora parties pushed up and clamped down on PAN's position of 1.3 percent", he said again.

Among the new parties, only the Ummat and Gelora parties began to show strength, threatening the old parties, particularly PAN and PKS. The Ummat Party was founded by PAN figure Amien Rais, while the PKS contained figures from PKS.

At the bottom, there are Perindo 0.8 percent, Hanura 0.7 percent, Berkarya 0.6 percent, PBB 0.4 percent, PKPI 0.3 percent, and Garuda 0.1 percent. Masyumi Reborn has zero support, while the other parties are 0.4 percent, and the rest do not know or do not answer as much as 21.9 percent of the total respondents.

The Voxpopuli Research Center survey was conducted on August 10 to 20, 2021 by telephone to 1,200 respondents throughout Indonesia who were randomly selected from the previous survey since 2019. The margin of error for the survey is around 2.9 percent with a confidence level of 95 percent.