PKB Envy Sees PDI-P Potentially Leading Presidential Candidate Without Coalition

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) DPP Jazilul Fawaid admitted that his party was jealous of the PDI-P, which could nominate a presidential candidate without forming a coalition with other parties.

This is because the survey results state that the electability of PDIP in the legislative election of the DPR RI in 2024 will meet the presidential threshold requirement of 20 percent.

"Without a coalition, the PDI-P is enough. So, we are really jealous because the threshold is only PDI-P. PKB or other parties don't reach 20 percent," Jazilul said in a virtual discussion, Sunday, June 13.

The 20 percent presidential threshold is hard for the party led by Muhamimin Iskandar (Cak Imin). Therefore, Jazilul said that currently, PKB has not dared to announce the figures who will be promoted as presidential candidates in 2024.

"It is nonsense if (PKB) mentions a candidate's name without a coalition to carry him. The seat adequacy variable is only owned by PDIP, not owned by other party variables," he said.

Therefore, the challenge for the parties today is to find their cadres to become presidential or vice-presidential candidates. Plus, they have to lobby other parties to form a coalition.

"This is our thought. Of course, PKB and other medium-sized parties should think about maintaining communication so that they are able to formulate a common agenda to find the figure that is expected by the community," he explained.

For information, the Saiful Mujani Research Center (SMRC) released a survey on the choice of political parties in the 2024 Legislative Elections. As a result, PDIP got the most electability of 25.9 percent.

Then, Gerindra 10.9 percent, Golkar 10.7 percent, PKB 9.7 percent, Democrats 6.6 percent, PKS 4.6 percent, Nasdem 3.7 percent, PPP 2.6 percent, PAN 1.8 percent, and other parties under 1 percent.

It is known, this survey was conducted in the period 21-28 May 2021. The survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with 1,220 randomly selected respondents. The margin of error for this survey is estimated at 3.05 percent and the survey confidence level is 95 percent.