New Boss at City Hall
Defying the predictions of pollsters, Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno won the race for Jakarta governor, decisively defeating incumbents Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat. Various campaign maneuvers significantly changed the voting map. The victorious party benefitted from racial and religious issues, while the defeated team gambled their credibility by distributing basic foodstuff just before the election, and lost. A conflict between an ethnic Chinese youth with the Governor of West Nusa Tenggara in Singapore added to the losing trend.
April 25, 2017
The Precedence to Religion
Religion and a blunder over the distribution of basic foodstuff by the opposing team gave Anies and Sandi the Jakarta governorship.
A week before the second round of voting in the election for governor of Jakarta, last week, Husein Yazid had just completed a final survey on the candidates' electability from April 1-8. This director of Indomatrik-H2Y had been hired by the Gerindra Party to monitor data on the electabilit
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