Build A New Axis Ahead Of The 2024 Political Year, PAN Hopes To Immediately Gather With PKB

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JAKARTA - The National Mandate Party (PAN) welcomes the invitation from the National Awakening Party (PKB) to build a new axis in the 2024 Simultaneous Elections. Moreover, this coalition of Islamic parties also invites the United Development Party (PPP). PAN also hopes to establish communication soon to discuss the PKB invitation.

"In the near future, PAN hopes to establish communication and friendship with PKB," said Deputy General Chairperson of PAN Viva Yoga Mauladi to reporters, Friday, December 17.

According to Viva, the meeting between political parties for a good invitation, of course, needs to be followed up immediately in order to formulate future political steps. Moreover, the election stage will begin in 2022.

"Meetings to connect feelings, connect ideals, so that we can formulate strategic steps together to build a collective struggle," explained Viva.

PAN, said Viva, would be very happy if this discourse was realized. Of course, he said, it would become a new political force on the map for the 2024 presidential election.

"If PAN and PKB are united, of course it will become a significant political force because PAN has 44 DPR seats and PKB 58 DPR seats. If we add one more political party, for example PPP, it would have exceeded the 20 percent presidential threshold requirement, as regulated in Article 222 UU 7/2017," said Viva.

To note, if the PKB which has 58 seats plus PAN 44 seats and is added to the PPP which has 19 seats in the DPR RI, then this combination of political parties can nominate a presidential candidate and a vice presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Based on the calculation of 20 percent of the 575 seats in the DPR, political parties must have 115 seats. Meanwhile, the combined axis of PKB, PAN and PPP, if formed, will have 121 seats in the Indonesian House of Representatives.

Previously, the call for the PKB, PAN and PPP axes came from the Deputy Chairperson of the PKB, Jazilul Fawaid. According to him, PKB will be able to carry presidential and vice presidential pairs if it joins PAN and PPP.

"I, as the Deputy General Chair of the Election Winning Sector, want PKB to lead the axis. PPP should also join because they are both green. Just add one more, leaving is already, for example PAN is enough, let's go. Bismillah," said Jazilul.