Tomorrow Monday, Prabowo Will Announce His Vice Presidential Candidate In Jakarta

Gerindra Presidential Candidate Prabowo Subianto (doc Gerindra)

SURABAYA - The presidential candidate for the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) Prabowo Subianto said his coalition plans to declare a candidate for vice president who will accompany him in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) in Jakarta, Monday, October 23, 2023. "God willing, the declaration tomorrow. In Jakarta, the capital city of the Republic of Indonesia," said Prabowo, who was present to accompany President Joko Widodo at the peak event of Santri Day in Surabaya, East Java, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, October 22.

Prabowo did not deny the strengthening of the name of President Joko Widodo's son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, as his companion. However, he said the decision would be decided at a meeting of the general chairmen of political parties who are members of the Advanced Indonesia Coalition this afternoon.

"Yes, you will see the development of many coalition parties that have nominated and carried him (Gibran) and yes later in the afternoon the meeting of the general chairman of the Forward Indonesia Coalition. The meeting will be in the afternoon. The final will be in the afternoon," he said. The man who also serves as the Minister of Defense said at the declaration that his party would invite the Mayor of Solo. Including inviting the Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir. He also mentioned that there had been communication with President Jokowi regarding the desire of his coalition to propose Gibran as a candidate for vice president. "Yes, of course, as an Indonesian with our cultural customs, of course, we will convey the wishes of our parties and proposals. He said it was up to Mr. Wali (Gibran, ed) that he was mature, if Mr. Mayor was willing, he certainly would not hold back roughly that," he said.Regarding his proposal to be responded with a positjf or negative by Gibran, Prabowo asked the media crew to conclude itself. "Yes, you can't give any conclusions," 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 elections that 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 of 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. It is also possible that 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.