While Prabowo had developed a classic populist campaign of the kind Hugo Chavez had run in Venezuela and Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand, his main rival, Jokowi, offered a more moderate version of populism. This "populism-lite was critical towards the inability of the Yudhoyono government to significantly improve public services for the citizenry, but it did not aim at the destruction or replacement of the democratic regime per se. Instead, Jokowi the then sitting governor of Jakarta and former mayor of Solo promised to be a more hands-on president than Yudhoyono had been, and he indicated that he would discontinue the tradition of oversized coalitions and "promiscuous power-sharing". Jokowi had overtaken Prabowo in most presidential opinion surveys since January 2013 and by December of that year, he had opened a 39 per cent lead over him (62 to 23 per cent). But Jokowi still needed a nominating party. While he was a member of Megawati's PDIP (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle), Megawati was widely believed to still hold presidential ambitions herself, and her daughter, Puan Maharani, also intended to run in the elections, most likely as a vice-presidential candidate to the nominee of another party. Eventually, however, Megawati announced on 14 March 2014 that Jokowi was PDIP's presidential candidate. In the subsequent legislative elections, PDIP finished first with 18.95 per cent, but like Prabowo's Gerindra, it needed allies to officially nominate its candidate. Jokowi, and PDIP