PKS Politician Asks Minister To Run For 2024 Presidential Candidate Resign: Hard Work Alone Is Not Necessarily Successful, Let Alone Not Focused

JAKARTA - The chairman of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) DPP, Mardani Ali Sera, has asked ministers who are running as presidential candidates for 2024 to resign from their positions.

"All ministers must focus on maintaining their portfolios," Mardani told reporters quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 4.

According to Mardani, ministers need to focus on work rather than being preoccupied with running for president. According to him, it would be more elegant to resign from office so as not to interfere with the work of the government.

"Hard work alone is not necessarily successful, let alone not focused. Resigning is an elegant step," said the member of Commission II of the DPR.

The minister's resignation from his position as a presidential candidate must be recognized as a political ethic, not only because there are rules that regulate it, he explained.

According to Mardani, the president is a statesman. If in the process of running for president it turns out that he does not show statesmanship, then that person is not worthy to be president.

"Retreating is more ethical, the rules can still be manipulated, the president is a statesman. If the process has shown that he is not a statesman, he is worthy of being elected," said Mardani.

For information, Article 170 paragraph (1) of the Election Law stipulates that state officials nominated by political parties participating in the election or coalition of political parties as presidential or vice presidential candidates must resign from their positions.

Except, the president, vice president, leaders and members of the MPR, leaders and members of the DPR, leaders and members of the DPD, governors, deputy governors, regents, deputy regents, mayors, and deputy mayors.