Quick Count Not Reaching 3 Percent, PSI Remains Optimistic To Qualify For Senayan

The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) held a press conference at the PSI DPP office, Jakarta, Friday (16/2/2024). (ANTARA/Fath Putra Mulya)

Chairman of the Central Leadership Council (DPP) of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) Dedek Prayudi remains optimistic that his party will qualify for Senayan because a number of survey results before the election show an electability of more than 4 percent and a quick count of close to 4 percent.

The survey results of a number of institutions showed PSI's electability was above 4 percent. For example, SPIN said 4.2 percent when the survey was conducted on February 5-8, 2024. In fact, a survey by leading media research institutions stated PSI's electability was 4.4 percent but this survey was not released. All of this shows PSI is very likely to qualify for Senayan," said Dedek Prayudi as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, February 24.

Dedek also said that the current quick count results reached 2.9 to 3 percent with a margin of error of 1 to 1.5 percent, which means PSI still has the opportunity to enter the central parliament.

Based on this belief, the PSI DPP instructed all administrators, legislative candidates, and cadres to closely oversee the vote count at all levels.

We continue to monitor it at all levels. Because, from the findings in the field, there are quite a lot of human errors. For example, in the lidi bar column, it was written that 35 votes were recorded but only 25 votes were recorded. There is also a difference in C1 with the results of the recapitulation at the sub-district level," continued Dedek.

Such mistakes, said Dedek, are believed to have occurred in many places. It is very possible to be triggered by the fatigue of the officers.

From field monitoring, it was also found that there were more PSI votes than the votes of the legislative candidates.

"In our opinion, this is the effect of Mas Kaesang's presence at PSI," said Dedek.