Prabowo Hasn't Registered With The KPU Yet, Gerindra: If The Champion Appears Later

Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Habiburokhman (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Habiburokhman, opened his voice about when the presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his partner will register as participants in the 2024 presidential election. Moreover, to this day the coalition of parties supporting Prabowo has not announced the name of the vice presidential candidate accompanying the defense minister.

"We will inform you later. The day before, we will definitely inform all of our colleagues," Habiburokhman told reporters, Friday, October 20. Habiburokhman then mentioned the two pairs of presidential and other vice presidential candidates who had officially registered with the KPU yesterday. He invited other candidates to register first, but he said, usually the champion of the recent emergence.

"If you are a champion, you will appear later, please do another gas. Later, when it's running, Pak Prabowo will play," he said.

The East Jakarta legislator claims that the reading of the vice president from Prabowo Subianto is the figure that the public will look forward to registering as a participant in the 2024 presidential election to the Indonesian KPU. Moreover, according to him, the atmosphere of registration of the two candidates yesterday was not very lively.

"Can you imagine, there are two pairs of listing candidates (yesterday), asked by the people Eh, when did Mr. Prabowo register? Whose partner?' Curious (suggestion), kepo, and excited to wait for Mr. Prabowo's candidate," Habiburokhman claimed. The deputy chairman of Commission III of the DPR emphasized that the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) was not in a hurry to register candidate pairs with the KPU because there was still a lot of time before registration day closed on October 25, 2023. Therefore, his party was still conducting analysis and deepening very seriously on the 4 narrowing names.

"So when the vice president came out there really was a surprise effect, 'Oh, this is a figure who will help Pak Prabowo's electability'," he said.

Habiburokhman ensured that Prabowo's registration and his vice presidential candidate would make the universe boom with tens of thousands of supporters to take them to the KPU. "We are all ready, yes. I am from East Jakarta ready with 10 thousand troops. Prabowo who came should not be 1,000-2,000 like (yesterday), it was a bit quiet," he concluded.