President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has said today, 29 September, that he is "God willing" to stand for re-election next year "probably" with Vice-president Jusuf Kalla as his running mate.
In the 2004 presidential election, Vice-president Hamzah Haz got a bit carried away (or perhaps just plain greedy) and decided to stand against the encumbent president Megawati Sukarnoputri, leaving Mega to scramble around for a suitable Islamic runing mate to complement her nationalist credientials. Predictably he obtained a pitiful 3% of the vote - amd Mega lost too. Had Hamzah Haz shown a little more patience and struck a deal with Mega, they might have been re-elected, then he could have had her blessing for the top job next time.
Jusuf Kalla seems to have learned this lesson. Could it be that he has agreed to put his Golkar Party behind SBY in return for an endorsement for the presidency in 2014?
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