If The Presidential Candidate Is Still Mysterious, What Is Certain In The PDIP Presidential Election Will Be A Coalition

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) has confirmed that it will form a coalition with other political parties in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. For PDIP, a coalition is a necessity even though constitutionally the party led by Megawati Soekarnoputri has met the presidential threshold of 20 percent.

"The coalition is a necessity, even though the PDIP is constitutional, legally formal, we are the only party that can nominate its own presidential and vice presidential candidates," said PDIP Deputy Secretary General Arif Wibowo in the Release of the National Political Outlook Survey: Observing the Axis of the Party Coalition online. , Monday, December 27.

According to Arif, PDIP is of the view that coalitions are the basis for managing the diversity of the Republic of Indonesia. Therefore, he ensured that the banteng party would form a coalition when carrying out the candidate pairs (paslon) for the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"We are managing a diverse NKRI. So it is certain that our perspective is political, coalitions are a political necessity. We must be friends with other parties to nominate candidates for president and vice president based on our understanding and agreement about Indonesia in the future. No maybe we are alone," said Arif.

However, Arif said the PDIP would decide which presidential candidate he would be carrying later. Because he said, PDIP would first consider the data obtained from various surveys towards the 2024 election.

"Who, Mas, is the cawapres cawapres? Don't know. Who is the coalition? Don't know. What is certain is that our communication and relations with other parties, Alhamdulillah, are going well. The results of this survey encourage us to carry out some kind of conditioning in order to build a coalition that is strategic and conducive to face the 2024 general election," said Arif.

It is known, in the results of the Politics Research & Consulting survey with Indonesian Political Parameters released on Monday, December 27, PDIP came out as champion by getting 19.2 percent. Followed by Gerindra 13.3 percent, Golkar 7.6 percent, PKB 6.0 percent. , Democrats 5.7 percent, PKS 5.3 percent, PPP 3.3 percent, NasDem 3.1 percent, PAN 2.0 percent, and Perindo 1.1 percent. This survey was conducted on 12 November - 4 December 2021. By involving 1,600 respondents in 34 provinces. The criteria for respondents are at least 17 years old or already married. Sampling using a multi-stage random sampling method with a margin of error of 2.5 percent and a confidence level of 9.5 percent.