REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The ruling Democratic Party is ready to rival Joko Widodo or Jokowi, as a candidate for this years presidential election, the party's spokesperson, Andi Nurpati, said.

"We have prepared a strategy. Whoever the candidates are, we have strategy," Andi Nurpati said on Friday.

Andi said that the Democratic Party had studied all possible presidential candidates of other political parties for the presidential election 2014. According to her, all names were still on discourse until the legislative elections have the results.

"We have many people participating in our presidential candidate convention. They are ready to face Joko Widodo, Prabowo Subianto or Aburizal Bakrie," she said.

Concerning Jokowi, she said that the politician of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) has not shown any rocketing achievement so far as the Jakarta Governor.

Jokowi has declared his readiness to be a presidential candidate of the PDIP for the upcoming presidential election scheduled for July 9, 2014.

"I have received a mandate from PDIP Chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri to be a presidential candidate," he said at Marunda, North Jakarta, Friday. 

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