Reading The Directions For Democrat-NasDem Meeting, The 2024 Election Coalition?

AHY visits Nasdem Tower/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Democratic Party Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) has met the General Chairman of NasDem Surya Paloh on Tuesday, March 29. However, the meeting is considered normal because ahead of the 2024 General Election (Election), each party will approach each other to explore the suitability of a coalition.

Executive Director of Indonesia Political Review Ujang Komarudin said the meeting between AHY and Surya Paloh at the Nasdem DPP Office, Gondangdia, South Jakarta was a common thing.

Ujang said that the meeting was a form of exploration between political parties ahead of the upcoming 2024 General Election and was commonplace.

"Ordinary political meetings. The meetings explore each other," Ujang told reporters quoted on Wednesday, March 30.

He considered it too early if this meeting was then considered a step to fight the dominance of the PDI-P and the Gerindra Party in the upcoming elections. Ujang said, what is the agreement can change.

"It's too early for the meeting to build a Nasdem-Democratic coalition to counter or fight the PDIP-Gerindra axis," he said.

"Later, NasDem will meet the general chairman of other parties. Likewise, AHY will also meet the general leaders of other parties. Everything is still not visible on the party coalition map. The parties are still approaching each other and familiarizing themselves with each other so that when it is time to propose candidates for president and vice president, all of them have greeted each other," added Ujang.

AHY met Surya Paloh for two hours. After the meeting, he said his party and NasDem had the opportunity to form a coalition for the 2024 general election.

Moreover, these two parties have the same desire to succeed by increasing their number of seats at the legislative level. "Actually, there are lots of opportunities and options to form a coalition with each other," AHY told reporters, Tuesday, March 29.

He admitted that the closed meeting was dynamic. Democrats and NasDem, AHY said, have the same vision and mission regarding the 2024 election so that opportunities for collaboration are wide open.

However, AHY emphasized that the two parties still had to carry out discussions. Moreover, the election stage is still far away.

"NasDem opens opportunities, Democrats open opportunities. But, as we said, yes there is a timeline that we must follow together. Right now it is still early 2022, we will continue to follow it," he stressed.

"What is clear is that we have an agreement that there are indeed many common points compared to the differences, we also have a similar vision and mission, of course there are very open opportunities for coalitions," added AHY.

Even though he has the opportunity to form a coalition, AHY does not want to lock up the discussion by offering himself as a presidential candidate (candidate). Moreover, the two parties agreed that it was too early to talk about the presidential election, even though the stages of the election had not yet started.

"We haven't talked that far. We also avoid that too early in the morning when we talk to each other as if we lock up," said AHY.

According to AHY, there are still several factors that need to be discussed regarding the coalition between the two Democratic parties and NasDem. Including, seeing the will of the people.

"Many factors must be considered and measured, we both want to prioritize logic, vision and mission, and the will of the people of course," he said.

In line with AHY, NasDem Deputy Chairperson Ahmad Ali also said that there was no discussion about the presidential candidate in his party's meeting with the Democrats. The agreement between the two parties is only related to preparations for the 2024 election.

"The presidential candidate is still too fluid to talk about. NasDem and Democrats have reached an agreement, an agreement to prepare for the 2024 election," he stressed.

After all, NasDem is monitoring other figures as well as the latest political map. In fact, Ali said his party continues to see a number of names of potential candidates emerging from the survey results of a number of institutions.

"We don't talk about it at all, it's still too far away, it's still too fluid, because as AHY said we don't want to lock it up. We will see many new figures on the political map until the end of 2022, then who will it be narrowed down to," he said.

"But that today there are several names that appear in the survey institutions, I think it is a matter of discussion," concluded Ali.