Candidates For Governor Of Jakarta 2024, From Riza Patria To Ridwan Kamil
YOGYAKARTA Ahead of the 2024 DKI Jakarta gubernatorial election, several figures are expected to run for the governor of DKI Jakarta. Candidates for the Jakarta cagub who appear are also senior politicians who are already widely known by the public, especially those who live in the capital city.
As is known, the DKI Pilkada will be held in November 2024. There are several figures who are rumored to be running for the DKI Jakarta Pilkada in November, namely as follows.
1. Ahmad Riza Patria
Ahmad Riza Patria is a politician and former Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2020-2022 period accompanying Anies Baswedan who is the Governor of DKI Jakarta. Ahmad Riza himself replaces Sandiaga Uno as Deputy Governor of DKI who then decided to resign from this position in order to run in the 2019 election.
The name Ahmad Riza Patria is rumored to be possible to run as Governor of DKI Jakarta after a video circulated showing him and former Tangerang Regent Ahmed Zaki Iskandar. The video was made as a thank you to represent the Prabowo-Gibran Regional Campaign Team of DKI Jakarta Province. Interestingly, he invited him to work again for Jakarta.
"Yuk, kita bekerja lagi untuk Jakarta, Bro," kata Zaki. "OK, Gas," ucap politisi Gerindra.
2. Ahmad Sahroni
Ahmad Sahroni is a politician who is now a high-ranking official in NasDem. He has also been a member of the DPR RI for two terms since 2014. For now, Ahmad Sahroni sits as Deputy Chairman of Commission III of the DPR RI.
The name Ahmad Sahroni is widely rumored to be running as Cagub DKI Jakarta 2024 later. The issue arose after he commented on Ridwan Kamil's billboard, which was said to be running as DKI 1. He himself admitted that he had not yet determined his political direction in this year's Jakarta Pilkada. However, he claims it would be easier if he ran as DKI 1 for several reasons, first he was the son of the region and he lived in Jakarta.
"If I'm already in Jakarta. If it's just RK, it's easy, isn't it. The opponent is too easy," explained Sahroni at NasDem Tower, Central Jakarta, Thursday, March 23, 2024.
3. Ridwan Kamil
Ridwan Kamil is the Mayor of Bandung for the 2013-2018 period. After that he ran for the Governor of West Java and managed to qualify for the 2018-2023 period.
After no longer serving as Governor, Ridwan Kamil officially became a member of the Golkar Party with the position of deputy chairman. He is also considered to have contributed to the 2024 presidential election because he participated in winning the Prabowo-Gibran pair for being the Chair of the West Java Regional Campaign Team (TKD).
The news of the plan to nominate the man who is familiarly called Kang Emil emerged after a billboard of Ridwan Kamil was emblazoned on Jalan Hang Lekir, South Jakarta. The billboard contains an image full of his candidacy for the 2024 DKI gubernatorial election.
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