REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MEDAN -- Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa will be in Medan, North Sumatra, on Wednesday, for campaign activities.

"It will be the first campaign of Prabowo Subianto in North Sumatra," Gus Irawan Pasaribu of the Prabowo-Hatta success team stated here on Tuesday.

The Prabowo-Hatta pair is expected to win 60 percent of the total votes in North Sumatra.

Joko Widodo (Jokowi), Prabowo's rival, was in North Sumatra on Tuesday, as part of his campaign activities.

Indonesia will organize a free and democratic presidential election on July 9, 2014, which will be contested by only two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Jusuf Kalla.

The campaign period is between June 4 and July 5, 2014.

Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the chairman of Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement) Party, while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta's Governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla (JK), is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party.

The Jokowi-JK pair is supported by five political parties: PDIP, the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Justice and Indonesian Unity Party (PKPI), and the National Democratic Party (Nasdem) established by Surya Paloh, the owner of Metro TV and the Media Indonesia newspaper.

The Prabowo-Hatta pair is supported by Gerindra, PAN, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), the Moon and Star Party (PBB), and the Golkar Party, whose current chairman is Aburizal Bakrie, the owner of TV One.

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