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Golkar chairman calls members to start campaigning for Jokowi's 2019 presidential ticket
Jakarta Post - April 10, 2017
Setya told a regional party meeting in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday to set up Jokowi's pictures in areas deemed strategic to introduce Jokowi's 2019 presidential bid nominated by Golkar.
"I ask all Golkar cadres to put up banners of Pak Jokowi's pictures. You can do it, can't you?" Setya said before the party's members as quoted by Tribunnews.com, adding that Golkar's decision to endorse Jokowi's second term was unchangeable.
To defend such a decision, Setya, who is also the speaker of the House of Representatives, cited an internal survey conducted by Golkar that found Jokowi's popularity hit 50.8 percent, leaving behind his potential strongest contender, Prabowo Subianto, with 20.2 percent.
The survey included Prabowo as his Gerindra Party is said to nominate him again to run in the 2019 presidential race. Setya said that the internal study also placed Jokowi's popularity at top rank with 98 percent.
Setya further asked Golkar members to set up a proper strategy to win the upcoming regional elections as well as the presidential election, expecting each village and city in East Java, as well as elsewhere, to recorded 100 new party cadres.
Setya, who is under fire of his alleged involvement in a mega graft scandal of e-ID procurement, needs protection from President Jokowi from the internal party's rift. (msa/dan)
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