HEADLINE-INDONESIA ELECTION 2024 | Indonesia looks set for threehorse, two-round 2024 race

Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chair Megawati Soekarnoputri (left) and Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo (right) move to shake hands a moment after the former announced the latter as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 election on Friday in Bogor, West Java.(JP/PDI-P)

Indonesian voters are highly likely to be casting their ballots in a three-horse presidential race come 2024, following the surprise nomination of Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), quashing hopes for a quick election with the establishment of a “grand coalition” of pro-government parties.

Party leaders had earlier floated the idea of building a major alliance of parties supporting President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as a unified front to take on former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, who is backed by the NasDem Party and opposition parties, in hopes that next year’s election would conclude in a single round.

Now that Ganjar is on the PDI-P’s ticket, chances are high that the presidential race will need a second round, given that none of the potential contenders – Ganjar, Anies or Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto – are likely to garner more than 50 percent of the vote that is legally required to win.

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The Jakarta Post
Wed, April 26 2023

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PPP to announce presidential pick, likely backs Ganjar

Chairperson of the Mukernas V Committee of the United Development Party (PPP) Achmad Baidowi (center) and PPP deputy chairperson Fernita Darwis (second right) at the close of the Mukernas V PPP in Jakarta on Dec. 15, 2019. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)

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The Muslim-based United Development Party (PPP) is scheduled later on Wednesday to announce its pick for presidential candidate following a national leadership meeting in Yogyakarta earlier this week.

A senior PPP politician said the party was leaning toward endorsing Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo as its candidate for president for the 2024 presidential election.

Deputy party chairman Arsul Sani said most of the party’s provincial branches had proposed Ganjar as the party’s pick for 2024.

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The Jakarta Post
Yogyakarta
●   Wed, April 26, 2023

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