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SUCCESS TEAM BELIEVES SBY'S ELECTABILITY STILL 70 PCT
Jakarta, June 22 (ANTARA) - The success team of presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) said it believed the electability of its candidate still remained around 70 percent.
One of its members, Ruhut Sitompul, said here on Monday in response to reports that SBY's electability had dropped even below Megawati, his rival.
Ruhut said until now his camp still referred to the result of the survey of the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) as the basis for determining political measures ahead of the presidential election on July 8.
"We still believe in the results of the LSI survey that states SBY's electability is around 70 percent because the institute has proven the result of their survey in the legislative elections earlier closely matched with the actual result," he said.
Ruhut however said his camp respected the result of the survey that stated SBY's electability had dropped and treated it as as criticism to conduct improvements.
According to the Indonesia Development Monitoring the electability of the Megawati Soekarnoputri-Prabowo ticket reached 44.3 percent, above that of SBY-Boediono which was recorded at 30.43 percent or Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto that reached only 13.2 percent.
The pollster also cited 12.6 percent absentees in its survey results.
Ruhut said he was grateful the result was made known long before the election was carried out so that his camp had time to conduct improvements.
"We always welcome any criticism from outside which we could use for improvement," he said.
He said for the purpose of improving his campaigning SBY had reached out to the people in the fields. "Pak SBY also visited markets, hospitals and other places," he said.
The director of the Indonesian Voters Institute, Boni Hargens, earlier said the electability of SBY had dropped because latest discourse had started affecting his running mate.
He said however that the result of the poll could not be taken as an objective reference as it was effective only in terms of seconds. "Perhaps during interviews respondents mention A but after telephone call is cut they turn to B," he said.
Boni who is a politics lecturer of state University of Indonesia said that the survey result could only be used as consideration for voters not main reference, adding surveys also could not determine voters who were still undecided.
One of its members, Ruhut Sitompul, said here on Monday in response to reports that SBY's electability had dropped even below Megawati, his rival.
Ruhut said until now his camp still referred to the result of the survey of the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) as the basis for determining political measures ahead of the presidential election on July 8.
"We still believe in the results of the LSI survey that states SBY's electability is around 70 percent because the institute has proven the result of their survey in the legislative elections earlier closely matched with the actual result," he said.
Ruhut however said his camp respected the result of the survey that stated SBY's electability had dropped and treated it as as criticism to conduct improvements.
According to the Indonesia Development Monitoring the electability of the Megawati Soekarnoputri-Prabowo ticket reached 44.3 percent, above that of SBY-Boediono which was recorded at 30.43 percent or Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto that reached only 13.2 percent.
The pollster also cited 12.6 percent absentees in its survey results.
Ruhut said he was grateful the result was made known long before the election was carried out so that his camp had time to conduct improvements.
"We always welcome any criticism from outside which we could use for improvement," he said.
He said for the purpose of improving his campaigning SBY had reached out to the people in the fields. "Pak SBY also visited markets, hospitals and other places," he said.
The director of the Indonesian Voters Institute, Boni Hargens, earlier said the electability of SBY had dropped because latest discourse had started affecting his running mate.
He said however that the result of the poll could not be taken as an objective reference as it was effective only in terms of seconds. "Perhaps during interviews respondents mention A but after telephone call is cut they turn to B," he said.
Boni who is a politics lecturer of state University of Indonesia said that the survey result could only be used as consideration for voters not main reference, adding surveys also could not determine voters who were still undecided.
