The United Indonesia Coalition Ensures That The Names Of The 2024 Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates Have Not Been Discussed

Chairman of the Golkar Party Airlangga Hartarto, chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Suharso Monoarfa, and chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Zulkifli Hasan/SPECIAL DOK

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Advisory Council of the United Development Party (PPP) Muhammad Mardiono said the United Indonesia Coalition does not yet have the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates who are champions in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres).

The coalition consisting of the Golkar Party, PPP and the National Mandate Party (PAN), continued Mardiono, just discussed political cooperation in the 2024 General Election.

"We, the three parties have not discussed the presidential and vice presidential candidates, but only the beginning to discuss political cooperation in the upcoming 2024 election," said Mardiono when contacted by reporters, Monday, May 16.

Mardiono said the political meeting involving the three parties would be held again in the near future. However, he denied that this meeting would discuss their favorite presidential and vice presidential candidates.

According to him, the exact date of the meeting, which is not yet known, will only discuss the technicalities of political cooperation between the three parties.

"Of course the technical problem of political cooperation will then proceed to a meeting of party leaders throughout Indonesia," said Mardiono.

"In the near future (to meet, red), the vice presidential candidate has not been discussed," he added.

As previously reported, the General Chair of the Golkar Party, Airlangga Hartarto, held a meeting with PAN Chair Zulkifli Hasan and PPP General Chair Suharso Monoarfa in the Menteng area, Central Jakarta, Thursday, May 12.

Airlangga said the meeting was a gathering in the context of Eid al-Fitr. However, he did not deny that there had been coalition talks for the 2024 presidential election.

Meanwhile, PPP General Chair Suharso Monoarfa said they wanted to announce as early as possible the cooperation that would be established before the 2024 general election began, as well as strengthen the togetherness of these three political parties. There is also a coalition between Golkar, PAN, and PPP called the United Indonesia Coalition.

"We want to show or demonstrate a much earlier and more beautiful collaboration between political parties to complement each other and to strengthen each other's togetherness for the same things," said Suharso.