Jakarta – Another survey has revealed that the ruling Democratic Party will probably only secure a one-digit percentage of votes in the upcoming 2014 election.

A recent survey released by the National Survey Institute (LSN) shows that the ruling party's percentage dropped to as low as 10.5 percent as of June 2012 from 20.85 percent it gathered in the 2009 election.

LSN executive director Umar S. Bakry said that the party would be a mediocre party unless serious changes were applied. Umar mentioned that the cases implicating Democratic Party politicians had lowered the public's trust towards the party.

"The alleged case against the party chairman, the Hambalang case, and others, should be resolved if they want to increase its electability rate," Umar said on Tuesday.

Even more, Umar said that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's ruling party would gather only seven to nine percent votes in the 2014 elections if no firm resolution was made.

The survey received 1,230 respondents from 33 provinces conducted on June 10-20. Information gathering was done by face-to-face interviews, with an equal composition of male and female respondents.

On the other hand, Golkar has shown an increase by gaining 20.1 percent votes in the survey from its 14.4 percent in 2009. Coming after Golkar is the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) with 14 percent, similar to 14.3 percent it garnered in 2009.

Survey on party figures has also shown that Democratic Party's probable presidential candidate, First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, would gather votes below five percent.

Leading candidates are PDI Perjuangan chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri with 18 percent, Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party founder Prabowo Subianto with 17.4 percent and Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie with 17.1 percent. (fzm)