JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's main opposition PDI-P party on Friday named Jakarta governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate, ending months of suspense over whether the man seen as most likely to become leader of the world's third largest democracy would run.
Opinion polls show Jokowi, as he is popularly known, far ahead of any other likely candidate in the July 9 election.
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