His Name Is Expected To Be Suitable As Anies Vice Presidential Candidate, This Is The Response Of The Governor Of East Java Khofifah

East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa was reluctant to respond to his name being included in the names of the vice presidential candidates who were promoted for the 2024 General Election.

"I'm sorry, thank you, thank you (you, thank you, red) for that," said Khofifah as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 26.

Khofifah conveyed this after receiving the title of overall champion representing East Java at the Adinata Syariah Award 2023. The award was handed over directly by Vice President Ma'ruf Amin.

When asked by reporters about his arrival at the An-Nawawi Tanara Islamic Boarding School, Serang, Banten, the private residence of the Vice President, Khofifah said that he often stopped by the place.

"To Tanara? Well, I often used to be Maulid, I was the one who gave the lecture there first. Thank you everyone," added Khofifah briefly and immediately moved from the location.

Previously, Khofifah's name was mentioned by the Coalition for Amendments to Unity (KPP) as one of the candidates for vice president (cawapres) to accompany Anies Baswedan. KPP consists of the Nasdem Party, PKS and the Democratic Party

Deputy Chairperson of the PKS DPP Syuro Council, Sohibul Iman, said that three of the five candidates for Vice President Anies Baswedan had narrowed.

The three names are the Democratic Chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY), former West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan (Aher) and East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa.

Apart from KPP, Gerindra Party Chair Prabowo Subiatno also met Khofifah in Surabaya, East Java, in February 2023. The meeting was the second meeting, the first meeting had taken place on May 3, 2022. At that time Prabowo visited Khofifah at the Grahadi State Building, Surabaya.

However, Khofifah refused to explain the meeting specifically to discuss the matter of preparing for the 2024 presidential election (Pilpres).

Meanwhile, Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has stated that he invites presidential candidates to choose vice presidential candidates from the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) circles.

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin is known to have served as Rais' Aam (the 10th highest leader) of NU in 2015-2018 before he became Vice President accompanying President Joko Widodo.

Meanwhile, Khofifah was included as Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) Executive Board for the Khidmah Period 2022-2027. Previously, since 2000, she was the General Chairperson of the NU Muslimat Central Executive (women's organization) until now.