Cak Imin 'Pede' AMIN Couple Wins In East Java's "Cpal Horse"

Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar with Rizieq Shihab/IST

JAKARTA - Chairman of the DPP National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar said his party was optimistic that the pair of candidates for president and future vice presidential candidate Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar could win in the "Cuteline", East Java, in the 2024 election.

"The PKB victory in the 'Cpal Horses' will be the victory of the AMIN pair in the 2024 presidential election," he said during his political safari with Anies Baswedan at the Nurul Islam Islamic Islamic Boarding School (Nuris) in Jember Regency, Thursday, September 28.

Selama pemilu, lanjut dia, kemenangan PKB berada di wilayah "Taf Kuda" Jawa Timur, meliputi Kabupaten Banyuwangi, Jember, Situbondo, Bondowoso, Lumajang, dan Probolinggo.

According to him, the East Java "Cpal Horse" area will be the most niche for AMIN couples at the democratic party which will take place on February 14, 2024.

"God willing, 'The Horseshoe' and East Java will generally win the most AMIN as long as the PKB cadres in East Java are united to support the AMIN pair in the 2024 presidential election," he said.

Meanwhile, Nuris Jember Islamic Boarding School Caretaker KH Muhyidin Abdus Somad said the arrival of Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar for friendship with kiai and ulama in Jember and its surroundings.

"There were around 500 to 1,000 kiai and ulama who were present, even though they received an invitation via text message. They were here to pray for the AMIN pair in the 2024 presidential election," he said.

He said his support for AMIN personally as the caretaker of the Islamic boarding school, but as Chair of Rois Syuriyah PCNU Jember, his party was neutral.

"Anies-Muhaimin's arrival met the kiai and ulama at the Nuris Islamic Boarding School for friendship and asked for blessings. As the caretaker of the boarding school, I support it," he said.

Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General 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 number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally 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.