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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Preliminary results from Indonesia’s election commission affirm predictions by pollsters showing a first-round victory for incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in presidential elections.
His opponents had yet to concede defeat and called Wednesday’s vote undemocratic.
The National Election Commission today gave Yudhoyono 62 percent in its first preliminary figures, based on more than 18.7 million ballots counted.
Former President Megawati Sukarnoputri was running second with 28 percent, and Vice President Jusuf Kalla was third with 10 percent. A final result is due by the end of July.
