Exclusive, Secretary General of NasDem Party Hermawi Taslim Reveals the Reasons for Carrying out Anies Baswedan

JAKARTA - When NasDem Party nominated Anies Baswedan as its presidential candidate on October 3 2022, many people asked why it didn't nominate a candidate from within the party. The following year, on October 2, 2023, the pair Anies and Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) were declared as candidates for a change coalition consisting of the Nasdem Party, PKB and PKB. According to the Secretary General of the NasDem Party, Hermawi Taslim, SH., the presidential candidate is different from the party chairman. "If there is something better from outside, why not, this is in the interests of the nation. The point now is that we think Anies Baswedan is the best person to be a servant of the people. In time NasDem will have its own cadres that can be promoted," he told VOI, here is the full excerpt.