PSI Supports Eri Cahyadi To Go Again In The 2024 Surabaya Regional Election: We Immediately Step On The Gas In 2022

Mayor of Surabaya Eri Cahyadi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) DPD of Surabaya City has begun to support Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyadi to run again in the 2024 Surabaya Regional Head Election (Pilkada).

Chairman of the DPD PSI Surabaya, Erick Komala, said that his party would collaborate as much as possible with Mayor Eri Cahyadi in welcoming the 2024 Surabaya Pilkada.

"We will provide concrete support. We will all mobilize the mass base to support Mr. Eri Cahyadi," he said, in Surabaya, quoted from Antara, Sunday 12 December.

In fact, he continued, starting 2022, the DPD PSI Surabaya has started to step on the gas

"We have to start first, warm up first, we can't be careless. If 2023 is fast, yes, it's late. So starting 2022, we will map out the areas," said Erick.

He emphasized that during his leadership, the PSI Surabaya DPD was solid and one command supported Eri Cahyadi. He is optimistic that in the future, there will be no split due to differences in the choice of candidate pairs.

"In my leadership, the DPD must have one command. This means that we openly support Mr. Eri and the DPCs are also in agreement with the DPD," he said.

Erick is also optimistic that PSI Surabaya has completed the administrative verification requirements targeted by the General Elections Commission (KPU) as a requirement to participate in the 2024 Surabaya Pilkada. Some of them have management in 31 sub-districts and already have more than 1,000 cadres.

"We are optimistic that all of the targets have been met. We already have 31 DPCs. The DPD-DPC SKDIs (Office Domicile Certificates) are also okay," he said.

Meanwhile, Mayor Eri Cahyadi while attending the Regional Coffee Ground (Kopdarda) of the DPD PSI Surabaya on Saturday night, December 11, admitted that he still remembers very well how it was during the 2020 Pilkada, when the winning of regional heads was only accompanied by two parties, namely PDIP and PSI.

"I have fond memories of when I had to go down from one place to another with their militants, amazingly, never give up from PSI friends. I thank you," he said.

According to Eri, PSI can definitely be at the forefront, when there is no longer anyone bringing each other down.

"I hope PSI can come down to listen to the complaints of Surabaya residents. Listen to what the people of Surabaya want, when PSI's friends listen to it and convey it to me," he said.