PDIP Optimistic To Reach 60 Percent Of The Votes For East Java Voters To Win Ganjar Pranowo

Head of the East Java PDIP DPD, Said Abdullah and Ganjar Pranowo. (Doc. DPD PDIP East Java)

Chairman of the East Java PDI-P Regional Leadership Council Said Abdullah targets at least 60 percent of the votes in this area to help win Ganjar Pranowo in the 2024 Presidential Election.

"As much as 60 percent of the votes are light, 70 percent need a 'best effort' for party engines," Said said in Surabaya, Sunday.

He is optimistic that this target can be achieved because East Java is a vote base owned by the PDI-P.

"East Java belongs to the PDI-P, how come it wants to be taken away. Who dares to win?" he said, quoted by Antara.

Said emphasized that the PDI-P has not been afraid of maneuvering future presidential and other coalition candidates, especially those who often come to visit East Java.

"Don't be afraid of us, as if there are ghosts even though we are a big party, so why be afraid. We are optimistic," he said.

For this reason, he said, the realization of the vote target in East Java is aligned with the winning strategy that has been discussed with three coalition parties, namely the United Development Party (PPP), Perindo, and Hanura.

Then, the PDI-P continues to try to accommodate the strength of support from the community.

"We will form a coalition with our lower-level friends, poor people, and flip-flops whose current meetings are the same as the PDI-P current," he said.

Previously, the Secretary General of the PDI-P Hasto Kristiyanto said that Megawati Soekarnoputri's party already had the style and technicalities of the campaign that Ganjar Pranowo would later run, namely by staying at people's homes.

"This method was chosen because the PDI-P wants Ganjar to be more merged with the people," he said.

Based on the schedule set by the Indonesian KPU, 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.