Prabowo, Ganjar Pranowo And Anies Baswedan Must Know, The Figure Of The Vice Presidential Candidate Influences The Electability Of Presidential Candidates In The 2024 Election

Senior Researcher of the Political Research Center of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Firman Noor (left) in a public discussion (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Senior Researcher of the Political Research Center of the National Innovation and Research Agency (BRIN) Firman Noor said the figure of the vice presidential candidate (cawapres) will greatly affect the electability of presidential candidates (candidates) in the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

"The mistake of choosing a vice presidential candidate will reduce the electability of potential candidates," said Firman in the discussion "INDONESIA POLITICAL OUTLOOK: Projections of Democracy and Political Dynamics of 2022" which was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Political Research Center-BRIN quoted by Antara, Wednesday, February 2.

On the other hand, he said, a person who is actually mediocre or mediocre but has a capable vice president figure can have a greater chance of winning the general election (election). In fact, he gets many benefits from his choice of vice president.

Firman said that there were three top names on the stock exchange for presidential candidates in the 2024 election. The names were Ganjar Pranowo, Prabowo Subianto, and Anies Baswedan.

"There are so many names that have been milling about, but the ones that are consistent enough to be in the top three are Ganjar, Prabowo, and Anies," he said.

There will be an increasingly fierce maneuvering competition between political parties in 2022, considering that in September 2023 there will be the determination of the names of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Based on the current trend, party leaders are competing to strengthen the electability and popularity of the figures, not ideologically.

This tendency can be seen from several party figures, such as the General Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar or who is familiarly called Cak Imin, who has started making vlogs to increase popularity.

“Airlangga (General Chairman of the Golkar Party, ed.) has been everywhere. Puan (PDI-P politician, ed.) Her pictures are already everywhere. We have started to build networks and volunteers,” he said.

He said that there would be political movements or maneuvers related to the establishment of new parties and party registration. The number of parties in Indonesia, he said, has not decreased.

“Indonesia is actually difficult to become a country with few parties because there are still many parties. For example, the Gelora Party, PKN, Prima, Labor Party, People's Party, and so on," said Firman.