Survey Results Always Drop, Cak Imin Considers It Input

Will the vice presidential candidate (cawapres) Muhaimin Iskandar (left) or Cak Imin greets Malang Raya residents in the Simpang Balapan area, Malang City, East Java, Sunday (8/10/2023). (ANTARA)

The vice presidential candidate Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin stated that the various survey results that put him and his running mate for presidential candidate Anies Baswedan were at the lowest level as input to work harder.

After attending the Jalan Sehat Together AMIN activity in Malang City, East Java, Sunday, Cak Imin said all the survey results conducted by a number of these institutions would be used as input for future improvements.

"We consider it input. The survey results, whatever the results, we will use it as input to work hard," said Cak Imin, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, October 8.

Based on records, the survey results of the Australian institution, Utting Research, put the former Governor of DKI Jakarta in pairs with Cak Imin for the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) in third place with 27 percent of the votes.

The vote was below Ganjar Pranowo who was in first place with 34 percent and Prabowo Subianto with 33 percent.

Meanwhile, in the Indonesian Political Indicators survey, Anies-Cak Imin was ranked third with an electability rate of 17.8 percent, while Prabowo Subianto was in first place with 33.5 percent, followed by Ganjar Pranowo with 32.8 percent.

Regarding NasDem Party cadre Syahrul Yasin Limpo who was caught in a corruption case while serving as Minister of Agriculture and was declared influential on Anies-Cak Imin's electability, he said there were a number of things that the public should pay attention to.

"First, it is a personal matter, not a group. Then, don't generalize it because it's a personal matter," he said.

According to him, with the alleged corruption case that ensnared the former Minister of Agriculture who is currently being investigated by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), it is hoped that the legal process can be enforced as objectively as possible indiscriminately.

"We are committed to the law being enforced as objectively as possible indiscriminately," he said.

Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who 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 pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. It could also be that the candidate pairs are 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.