Anies Doesn't Want To Be Dizzy About The Electability Of The Presidential Candidate Survey Is Always Lower

SURABAYA - Anies Baswedan's presidential candidate stated that he did not want to bother with the acquisition of electability based on the results of a survey that had not been able to compete with Ganjar Pranowo and Prabowo Subianto in the East Java region.

"It is important for us to reach, meet, stay in touch, and provide explanations about the purpose of all people because these numbers can change," said Anies, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, October 2.

This was conveyed by Anies after attending the "Sidosrmo Bersholawat Dalam Rangka Maulid Akbar Sekaligus Haul Assayyid Sulaiman Mojoagung Jombang in Pondok Sidosrmo, Surabaya, Sunday night.

He did not deny that he often received questions about the acquisition of electability in the survey table for the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres).

He said the results of a survey were conditions or portraits of numbers that occurred before the political constellation's agenda took place.

"Meanwhile, the election is a portrait on February 14, the survey may go up and down," he said.

He said the same thing about obtaining electability in the results of the 2024 presidential election survey when he ran for the governor of DKI Jakarta.

"Our experience during the Jakarta Regional Head Election (Pilkada) was that none of the surveys ever placed us as number two, let alone number one, all of them put number three," he said.

"Is the result true like that? It turns out not," he continued.

Therefore, Anies stated that he did not want to be fixated on the survey results, but wanted to focus on the future vice presidential candidate Muhaimin Iskandar and the ranks of parties in the Change Coalition to accommodate the aspirations of the people, as well as formulate winning steps in the 2024 presidential election.

"We are now concentrating on reaching all, socializing all, because I believe that the Indonesian people want justice, want reform, and that's what we offer, we socialize," he said.

Meanwhile, the survey results from the Indonesian Political Indicators that have been released place Anies Baswedan in third place in terms of electability acquisition in East Java with a percentage of 14.4 percent, through a simulation of three names.

Anies' electability is below the presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo with 43.9 percent and Prabowo Subianto with 33.8 percent. Meanwhile, as many as 8.0 percent said they did not vote or did not answer.

The survey was conducted from September 14-20, 2023, involving Indonesian citizens in East Java and already has the right to vote in general elections, aged 17 years or older, or married when the survey was conducted.

In this survey, the number of samples was 1,810 people assuming the "simple random sampling" method.

The sample size of 1,810 respondents had a "margin of error" error tolerance of approximately 2.4 percent, at a 95 percent confidence level.

The samples come from all regencies/cities in East Java which are proportionally distributed. The selected respondents were interviewed face-to-face by the interviewers who had been trained.

In accordance with the RI KPU schedule, the registration of prospective pairs of candidates for president and vice president of the Republic of Indonesia will start from 19 October to 25 November 2023.

Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu) regulates that pairs of presidential/vice-presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in elections that meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR.

Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that the presidential/vice presidential candidate pair in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in support from the Indonesian House of Representatives. Candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election, with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.