Prabowo: Age Is Not A Consideration In Giveing Authority

Prabowo Subianto (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The presidential candidate from the Forward Indonesia Coalition (KIM) Prabowo Subianto rejects the assumption that age will have an influence on a person's authority.

"So I don't think age is a criterion, but desire and intention. There are young people whose intentions are just spree, there are parents and their lives are hedon," Prabowo said while attending the declaration of young volunteers who were members of the State Successor in Djakarta Theater, Jakarta, Saturday.

He admitted to giving authority to people he considered to have abilities and expertise.

"I don't care whose background, whose parents, race, religion. If he was really capable, eager, intending, and had good intentions, that's what I've been pushing, it's always been my establishment and beliefs," he said.

He also expressed his gratitude to the State Successors volunteers who had declared their support for him.

Previously, hundreds of supporters of the prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka who were members of the young volunteer group of the State Successor fulfilled the declaration which coincided with the commemoration of Youth Pledge Day.

Present at the declaration included the Chairman of the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team Rosan Roeslani, Deputy Chairman of the Prabowo-Gibran National Winning Team Bahlil Lahadalia, and Secretary General of the Gerindra Party Ahmad Muzani. On that occasion, the National Coordinator for the Predana State, Indraputra, read the script for the declaration of support for Prabowo Subianto.

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. In addition, pairs of candidates can also be 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.