Fellow UGM Alumni, Airlangga And Ganjar Communication Regarding The Presidential Election Continues Smoothly

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Head of Golkar, Airlangga Hartarto during a market operation in Semarang. (photo: doc. ekon)

JAKARTA - The emergence of voices that want a duet between Airlangga Hartarto and Ganjar Pranowo in the 2024 presidential election, has made the visit of the General Chairperson of the Golkar Party in Central Java always attract media attention. Moreover, in several surveys Airlangga and Ganjar are often favored when paired.

In response to this, Airlangga has not thought about the presidential and vice presidential candidates. However, he admitted that so far, communication with PDI-P politician, Ganjar Pranowo, who is currently the Governor of Central Java, has been fine regarding the discourse of the presidential candidate pair Ganjar-Airlangga in the 2024 presidential election.

"Communication among alumni (University) of Gadjah Mada is fine," said Airlangga after meeting with micro, small and medium enterprises who are members of the SME business group in Semarang City, Sunday.

Airlangga admitted that he had not concentrated on the discourse on the duet between the presidential and vice presidential candidates with the Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, although they were still communicating.

The results of the Y-Publica survey show that the simulation of the presidential candidate pair for the 2024 General Election, Ganjar Pranowo-Airlangga Hartarto, offsets the pair Prabowo Subianto-Puan Maharani.

The Y-Publica Institute simulated the presidential/vice presidential candidate pairs by pairing the five most powerful presidential candidates with five figures who deserve to be vice presidential candidates.

The five presidential candidates are Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto, Ridwan Kamil, Anies Baswedan, and Sandiaga Uno. Meanwhile, the five vice presidential candidates are Puan Maharani, Airlangga Hartarto, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Erick Thohir, and Gatot Nurmantyo.

The result is that the Prabowo-Puan pair is the most favored by the public, competing closely with the Ganjar-Airlangga pair.

Prabowo-Puan was supported by 85.6 percent, while those who did not support 12.1 percent and the rest did not know/didn't answer 2.3 percent. The Ganjar-Airlangga pair was supported by 84.1 percent, did not support 11.2 percent, and did not know/didn't answer 4.7 percent.