Meeting Today, PAN-Gerindra Opens Opportunities To Discuss Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates

Chairman of the DPP PAN and Chairman of the PAN faction of the DPR RI Saleh Partaonan Daulay. BETWEEN/Indra Arief Pribadi/aa

JAKARTA - Chairman of the DPP of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Saleh Partaonan Daulay did not deny that in a friendly meeting of the Gerindra Party DPP management to the PAN DPP, Jakarta, Monday, they will discuss the presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election. "In the meeting later, I estimate that we will not be separated from the discussion about the presidential and vice presidential candidates," Saleh said in a statement received in Jakarta, Antara, Monday, June 5. He confirmed that the meeting with the Gerindra Party DPP would be held at the PAN DPP office at around 14.30 WIB. "Yes, that's right. The agenda was scheduled long before. This is Gerindra's political gathering visit to PAN," he said. Saleh said that the discussion with the Gerindra Party DPP was carried out to find common ground in determining the pair of national leaders in the 2024 presidential election. "PAN will be consistent in conveying the main things that are PAN's struggle. On that basis, a common ground is sought in determining the pair of national leaders in the presidential election later," he said. Saleh said that in the meeting he would also discuss more technical matters regarding how to make each party contribute to carrying out peaceful and dignified elections. "It is carried out in a jurdil based on democratic and Pancasila values. We encourage elections without being noisy. Not bringing each other down, not blaming each other," he said. If there is a debate, he continued, then it is directed at a substantive issue to find a solution for every problem in society. "So the war is a war of ideas, not a 'buzzer' war that sometimes threatens unity," he said. Previously, last Friday, June 2, the National Mandate Party (PAN) DPP visited the PDI-P DPP Office in Jakarta to discuss exploring coalition cooperation and the presidential candidate for the 2024 presidential election. PAN Chairman Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) said there would be a follow-up meeting with the PDI-P as a follow-up to the meeting at the PDI-P DPP Office, Jakarta, Friday, to stay in touch and discuss exploring coalition cooperation. "We will hold further meetings," said Zulhas after a meeting with the PDI-P. PDI-P General Chair Megawati Soekarnoputri said her party would visit the DPP Office of the National Mandate Party (PAN) as a follow-up meeting after PAN visited the PDI-P DPP Office, Jakarta, Friday. Based on the schedule set by the Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU), registration of prospective presidential/vice-presidential candidates from October 19 to November 25, 2023. As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential/vice-presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the nationally valid votes in the previous election for members of the DPR. Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. In addition, candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.