Gerindra Has Already Pocketed The Name Of Prabowo's Vice Presidential Candidate, PKB: We Are Looking Forward To It With Joy

Prabowo and Muhaimin Iskandar/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The National Awakening Party (PKB) said it respects the internal process of the Gerindra Party in determining a vice presidential candidate (cawapres) to accompany Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate (candidate) in the 2024 General Election. Deputy Secretary General of the PKB DPP, Syaiful Huda, said that although PKB had collaborated with Gerindra, his party could not interfere with the internal mechanisms of the party chaired by Prabowo Subianto.

"We are just following the process that is currently happening internally at Gerindra in determining the pair of presidential candidates they will carry. As friends, we will happily look forward to whatever decision Gerindra makes," Huda told reporters, Thursday, July 7.

Huda said PKB also has its own internal process in determining its proposed presidential and vice presidential candidates. Currently, he said, the ranks of the PKB management continued to consider the best partner for the General Chair, Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin in the 2024 presidential election.

"Whoever we will compare with Gus Muhaimin has met various criteria that we have set, both in terms of ideology, vision and mission, to the potential to win," he said.

The chairman of Commission X of the House of Representatives said that the decisions of the presidential and vice presidential candidates promoted by the Gerindra and PKB coalition could later be different. However, according to him, as a coalition partner the differences that occur will be resolved at the negotiating table.

"For example, Gerindra's decision to appoint Mr. Bowo as a presidential candidate and PKB's decision to endorse Gus Muhaimin as a presidential candidate, this is clearly different. It is impossible for a coalition to have two presidential candidates, so we will resolve this difference at the negotiating table who is the presidential candidate and who is the presidential candidate. who is the vice president," he explained.

Nevertheless, Huda emphasized, PKB still continues to socialize Cak Imin as a presidential candidate to various levels of society. This process, he said, would be carried out until the stage of the declaration of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates which would be officially carried out by the PKB and Gerindra coalition.

"PKB will continue to focus on socializing the winning of Gus Muhaimin as a presidential candidate until later we enter the coalition declaration stage with Gerindra and the stage of determining the presidential-vice presidential candidate pair that we are carrying together," concluded Huda.