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Prabowo leads rivals ahead of Indonesia's presidential election
The Straits Times
|August 14, 2023
Defence Minister secures the backing of 4 of 9 parties in Parliament ahead of 2024 poll
Mr Prabowo Subianto has received the backing of nearly half of the nine political parties in Parliament, putting him ahead of the other two candidates in Indonesia's five-yearly presidential election that is slated for February 2024.
In a surprise decision on Sunday, the nation's oldest party Golkar and the Islamic-leaning National Mandate Party (PAN) pledged support for the Defence Minister and former army general.
He had earlier secured support from his own Gerindra party and the Islamic-leaning National Awakening Party (PKB).
Parties supporting Mr Prabowo's candidacy command 46 per cent of Parliament seats.
The other two presidential candidates, Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo, 54, and former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, 54, have 26 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively.
"The additional political party backing would keep the momentum of Prabowo's rising electability," Mr Sirojudin Abbas, a researcher at SMRC, a noted Jakarta-based pollster, told The Straits Times.
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