Could The Prabowo-Anies Duet Appear To Fight Ganjar In The 2024 Presidential Election?

Anies Baswedan (Photo via Twitter)

JAKARTA - The map of presidential candidacy in the future is predicted to continue to change. In fact, it can provide extraordinary surprises to the public.

One of the dynamics or surprises that may occur is to bring up the discourse of the Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan duet as pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Senior Surabaya Consulting Group (SCG) researcher, Arif Budi Santoso, said the opportunity could arise. Because the supporters of the two figures intersect. The second duet will also match Ganjar Pranowo's electability.

"By reading Ganjar's electability trends like that, it is possible that there will be a shift in awareness between Prabowo and Anies' camp to consolidate themselves to challenge Ganjar by giving birth to the Prabowo-Anies duo. The calculations are possible, so that consolidation occurs among Prabowo and Anies supporters who are actually a little literate," said Arif, Wednesday, May 3.

Arif said Ganjar's electability figures have the potential to continue to increase because the level of popularity is not as optimal as Prabowo and Anies. Ganjar's popularity in a number of new surveys ranges from 80 percent, while Prabowo and Anies are already above 90 percent.

The potential duet between Prabowo Anies could also have something to do with the meeting between Prabowo and Jusuf Kalla. The contents of the meeting are not yet known. However, it could be discussing the coalition and the duet between Prabowo and Anies.

JK is a figure who has long supported Anies, for example in the last Jakarta gubernatorial election. In the 2024 presidential election, JK has even proposed a number of names to become Anies vice presidential candidates. However, these names are still under discussion by Anies' supporting parties, including NasDem, PKS, and Democrats.

On the other hand, Arif said Ganjar Pranowo's candidacy as the opening game changer of all political chess games for the 2024 presidential election.

Arif said that Ganjar had changed the scenarios, be it the scenario of the United Indonesia Coalition (PPP, Golkar, PAN), the Greater Indonesia Awakening Coalition (Gerinda and PKB), and even the Change Coalition (NasDem, PKS, Democrats).

Lebih dari itu, dia mengatakan kebutuhan konsolidasi internal partai politik untuk mengamankan suara pemilihan legislatif 2024 merupakan salah satu varia penting dalam penutusan capres-cawapres.

Arif gave an example, the advancement of Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) in the presidential election will consolidate the power of the Democrats, so that his voice will be safe.

"With such political calculations, political bands can continue to change. The chess is still being played, while of course having to calculate the presidential threshold," said Arif.