He won nearly 60 per cent of the vote, based on unofficial quick counts of sample votes.
Mr Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Mr Gibran Rakabuming Raka, greeting supporters at a watch party in Jakarta on Feb 14.Mr Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, Mr Gibran Rakabuming Raka, greeting supporters at a watch party in Jakarta on Feb 14.How Indonesia’s polling day unfolded
“Jokowi – I know him very well, he’s a very, very, very hard worker, he doesn’t know the meaning of fatigue, his ministers are tired working for him,” he joked, using the President’s familiar name. Similarly, pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia also put the Prabowo-Gibran pair ahead of their rivals with 57.88 per cent of the votes, based on 75 per cent of sample ballots counted. The Anies-Muhaimin team had 25.66 per cent and the Ganjar-Mahfud team garnered 16.46 per cent.
The Feb 14 presidential election marked the first leadership change in a decade in the world’s third-largest democracy, as Mr Widodo, 62, was constitutionally barred from running again after two terms in power.
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