Gerindra Can Get Electoral Advantage If It Becomes Prabowo Subianto's Candidate Again

General Chairperson of Gerindra Prabowo Subianto (Photo via party)

JAKARTA - The Sin PO Research and Development Survey stated that the Gerindra Party has the most opportunity to carry its own cadres. The reason is, of the several general leaders who are running for president, only Gerindra Chairman Prabowo Subianto has high electability. Sin Po's Head of Research and Development, Syahrial Mayus, said that PDIP was indeed the first political party to have the opportunity to nominate candidates for president from internal cadres. This is because PDIP no longer needs to form a coalition with any political party to get tickets for the presidential election. "The current acquisition of PDIP seats is above the 20 percent presidential threshold, which is 22.3 percent," said Syahrial in a survey released on Friday, June 24.

Furthermore, the political parties that are most likely to nominate their own cadres as presidential candidates are the Gerindra Party and the Golkar Party. These two parties only need 1 coalition partner with political parties with seats in the DPR RI to be able to get tickets for the presidential candidacy, except with PPP. As for the NasDem Party and PKB which have 10 percent of the seats in the DPR RI, if they are not in a coalition between the two or not with PDIP, Gerindra and Golkar, then they need a minimum of 3 coalitions of political parties. While the presidential candidates who have started to emerge from the internal cadres of 9 political parties with seats in the DPR RI, some are general chairmen of their respective political parties. The Gerindra Party will carry Prabowo Subianto, the Golkar Party will carry Airlangga Hartarto, the PKB will carry Muhaimin Iskandar, the Democratic Party will carry Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY), and PAN will carry Zulkifli Hasan.

Meanwhile, PDIP did not carry the head of its political party, Megawati Soekarnoputri. The rest, such as the NasDem Party, PKS, and PPP, have not submitted their own internal cadre names for presidential candidates. "Among the names of the figures above, currently only Prabowo Subianto has the highest electability rate," said Syahrial.

With the position of the Gerindra Party which only needs one coalition partner to be able to get a presidential ticket, except with PPP, coupled with Prabowo Subianto's electability level which is currently still in the top position, Syahrial said, it can be concluded that the Gerindra Party has the greatest opportunity to nominate its internal cadres. himself as a presidential candidate. "Because with Prabowo Subianto's ability and experience in the national political arena, it doesn't seem complicated enough to find 1 coalition partner among the 8 political parties with seats in the DPR RI," he explained. If Prabowo Subianto becomes the presidential candidate for the Gerindra Party, Syahrial continued, it is certain that the party bearing the eagle symbol will be blessed with the coat-tail effect of the nomination of its general chairman. "This means that with Prabowo Subianto's level of popularity and electability, which is currently in the top position, this will also spill over to the electoral level of the Gerindra Party," he said.