| Summary: | Recently, The Posture of "gigantic" Democrats is undeniable. As the winning party of election 2004 and 2009, it has put many of its cadres in the legislative
seats, both local and central levels. Nevertheless, the victory was not similar to mayor election in Yogyakarta. Despite having a high number of votes at the legislature, it was democrats Yogyakarta is the second time does not automatically nominate its own cadres in the elections. Indeed, it is so strange, since the substance is placed as the office seeking political parties (position public office seekers). Also, It becomes a vote seeking in order to get legitimacyfrom the people. The chance even exists in the electoral process.
Moving on from the above phenomena, this study aims to explore the selection of Democrats internal candidates in election 2011 Yogyakarta. It studied primarily to understand the context of nomination selection of regional head (mayor) of Yogyakarta by the democrat party. Secondly, to know the reasons why the Democrats did not carry its own cadres and what political preferences influence the choice during the selecting process of the head region (Mayor) of Yogyakarta 2011.
The flow of this research through two determinants, namely the analysis of internal and external parties. Chronology of internal analysis conducted by
reviewing the related democrat position and power base of party support. The flow of external analysis is focused on the political constellation domain and the
impact of direct elections character to support the analysis. This study analyzes the internal and external carried out simultaneously. Both of these analyzes will
lead to party decisions on the candidate.
The approach used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The data was collected using the case study method. The results showed that the "reluctant" of
democrat in carrying cadres themselves for various reasons. Most noticeable is the impact of local political constellation associated with RUUK Yogya that impacted to unfavorable democrat. It is due to internal forces increasingly vulnerable party.
Coupled by Democratic regeneration failures that led to the phenomenon of fading ideology, strengthening pragmatism. In addition, the taste was centralized
in decision-making that all comes lumpy in the central leadership (DPP).
The elected Hanafi Rais at once instead cadres democratic sovereignty showed that the selection process was limited to a mere ceremonial. Taking the logic to win the contestation, the election requires a populist candidate figure. And because of the availability of volunteers in crisis, for the sake of victory would not want democrats to be inclusive. The reason, the other partys candidate has higher popularity and electability than its own cadres.
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