Walkot Gibran Denies Possibility Of Becoming A Vice Presidential Candidate To Accompany Ganjar

Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka. (ANTARA)

JATENG - Mayor (Walkot) Surakarta Gibran Rakabuming Raka said it was impossible to become a candidate for vice president (cawapres) accompanying the presidential candidate (candidate) Ganjar Pranowo who was promoted by PDIP in the 2024 election. "It's impossible, wis didn't answer (after I answered)," he said in Solo, Thursday, August 3, was confiscated by Antara. Regarding the assumption that one of the senior politicians from PDIP Deddy Sitorus who judged Gibran did not explicitly give an attitude against the issue of the vice presidential candidate, he admitted that he had given an attitude since first. "I've said, the age is not enough, the knowledge is not enough, all is not enough. I'm good enough? (what else should I do?)," he said., related to the desire of another party that wants to carry Gibran as a vice presidential candidate, he admits that he still wants to focus on Solo. "Yes, thank you, I'm focused on Solo first," he said. As for the agreement signal from the DPR regarding the change in the minimum age limit of presidential and vice presidential candidates from 40 years to 35 years old, he was reluctant to respond. "I don't follow the news. It't follow that news. It's more fitting for the question to be addressed to the suer. It's possible that sing wants (the one who wants to sue. Ojo kabeh is suspected to me, I ki ora ngopo-ngopo, I don't do anything, I don't do anything)," he said.

He also admitted that he did not really think about the lawsuit. "Just ask him I didn't follow," he said.

Registration for presidential and vice-presidential candidates is scheduled for October 19, 2023 to November 25, 2023.

Based on Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and 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 total 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 the pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. It could also be that the candidate pairs are 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.