Anies Baswedan Predicted To Fight Prabowo In The 2024 Presidential Election

Prabowo Subianto (Photo: Instagram @prabowo)

JAKARTA - The name Anies Baswedan has risen in the presidential candidate electability survey in the 2024 General Election among young voters. This survey was conducted by Indonesian Political Indicators.

A political observer from Indo Barometer Muhammad Qodari thinks Anies has great potential to become a presidential candidate. Moreover, from the beginning, Anies's name was widely rumored to be running in the presidential election.

"The process of raising Anies' name started from his victory in the DKI Regional Elections. His name was raised because of the issue of religious blasphemy by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, supported by the 212 groups", Qodari told reporters, Tuesday, March 23.

Then, seeing the connection with this issue, Anies will be surrounded by supporting party candidates such as PKS, Golkar, Nasdem, and other parties.

"Why Anies? Because Anies has the most potential to last until the registration period of August 2023", he said.

In the Political Indicators survey, Anies ranks highest in the presidential candidate survey with the acquisition of 15.2 percent. Below it, there is the name Ganjar Pranowo with 13.7 percent of respondents.

Ridwan Kamil was chosen by 10.2 percent of the respondents. Following this, Sandiaga Uno was chosen 9.8 percent. Then in fifth place, Prabowo was chosen as much as 9.5 percent of respondents.

According to Qodari, the strong candidate who will fight Anies is Prabowo Subianto. Although Prabowo's name is in fifth place in the young voter electability survey, Prabowo's name is highest in several other surveys such as the Indonesian Political Parameters survey and the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI).

Prabowo's name had the most potential to be brought back by the Gerindra Party compared to other party cadres. Then, Prabowo has also served as Minister of Defense.

"Sir Prabowo will definitely run for the 2024 presidential election because the Gerindra party has a large seat, it only remains to get an additional coalition of one party with a middle seat, which meets the requirements to advance", explained Qodari.

"Most likely, the coalition is nationalist parties such as Gerindra and PDIP. Because it is a nationalist party, they want to be together with traditional Islamic parties such as PKB and modernist Islamic parties such as PAN", he added.

According to Qodari, when juxtaposed with Ganjar Pranowo and Ridwan Kamil, these two names have a smaller chance than Anies and Prabowo.

However, Ganjar and Ridwan Kamil's electability would decrease. This is because the names Ganjar and Ridwan Kamil have skyrocketed. After all, they are regional heads who are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Indeed, in the Political Indicator survey, there are names Ganjar and Ridwan Kamil. However, there is also a possibility that this name will decrease in the survey when the COVID-19 problem is relatively over with vaccination", said Qodari.

Meanwhile, the only regional head who consistently gets the news stage is Anies. This is because Anies is the head of the region at the center of government and economy.

"The only governor whose reporting is consistently high and massive, whether it is COVID-19 or not, is only Anies. This is because the policy made in Jakarta has an impact on many residents in other areas", he concluded.