Golkar plans victory in 2014

The Golkar Party is aiming to win big in the 2014 legislative elections. Golkar executive Hadjriyanto Tohari said that the party would get at least 30 percent of the vote in the 2014 election, which would roughly translate into 35 percent of seats in the House of Representatives.Hajriyanto said that to achieve the target, Golkar would focus on young and first-time voters in the upcoming election.
"Young voters are very important to us and we will initiate programs that will draw them in," Hajriyanto said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Data from the Center for Elections and Political Parties (CEPP) of the University of Indonesia says that there are over 50 million young people who will be eligible to cast their votes in the 2014 election.
In January, Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie predicted that the party would reap 35 percent of the vote in the 2014 legislative elections.
Bakrie said that Golkar had to win a majority of the vote in Java to garner the 35 percent in the House, or 195 of 560 seats, needed to nominate him as presidential candidate in 2014 without forming a coalition. (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Mon, April 08 2013, 6:10 AM)

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