Not Announced Prabowo's Vice Presidential Candidate, Gerindra Denies Waiting For The Constitutional Court's Decision Regarding The Age Limit

JAKARTA - The daily chairman of the Gerindra Party, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, denied that his party was waiting for the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the minimum age limit lawsuit for presidential and vice presidential candidates to be 35 years old, to announce Prabowo Subianto's companion. The reason is that the lawsuit was alleged to pass President Joko Widodo's eldest son (Jokowi) Gibran Rakabuming Raka as vice presidential candidate. Gerindra is also said to be probing Gibran to become Prabowo's partner. According to Dasco, Prabowo's vice presidential candidate has not been announced because he is still waiting for the right moment. He ensured that there was already a candidate when the registration was opened by the Indonesian KPU. I think it's just a matter of waiting for the time and we definitely register," said Dasco, Wednesday, October 4. Dasco explained that the affairs of the presidential and vice presidential candidates had been fully handed over to the general chairmen of the coalition political parties. Including Prabowo as the presidential candidate for the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM). "We, the coalition parties have met several times (discussing the vice president), but the matter has not yet been decided, I think there is no rule in the KPU to be fast or slow to decide, "explained Dasco.

The deputy chairman of the DPR emphasized that there is no obligation from the KPU for political parties to register their presidential and vice-presidential candidates early. Because Dasco said, registration of presidential and vice-presidential candidates to the KPU starts on 19-25 October 2023. "So, for registration, there is indeed a time span from the KPU and there is no obligation to register sooner or later," said Dasco.