Timses Dadang-Sahrul Gunawan Claims Winning Pilbup Bandung, Tearing Down The Myth Of Power Of The Incumbent Dynasty

Head of the winning team for the Bandung Regent candidate pair, Dadang Supriatna-Sahrul Gunawan, Cucun AS (left) (ANTARA / HO)

JAKARTA - The head of the campaign team for the Dadang Supriatna-Sahrul Gunawan (Bedas) pair, Cucun Ahmad Syamsurijal, claimed victory in the election for the regent of Bandung, West Java.

The member of Commission III of the DPR said that based on the data entered from the witnesses for the pair number three at each polling station (TPS), the Bedas pair had won 926,595 votes or about 55.73 percent of the valid votes.

"Until Thursday at 17.00 WIB the votes from 6,874 polling stations have entered our team's recapitulation. "Bedas' votes were quite far ahead of the other two pairs," Cucun said as quoted by Antara, Thursday, December 10.

Cucun, who is also a PKB politician, is optimistic that the Bedas pair can win the 2020 Bandung Regency Pilkada competition. Because if you refer to the incoming data, the pair number 1 Kurnia Agustina-Usman Sayogi gets 515,595 or 31.01 percent of the valid votes, and the serial number pair 2 Yena Masoem-Atep received 220,433 or 13.26 percent of the valid votes.

"The votes acquired by the two pairs of candidates are far behind compared to the votes of the Bedas pair, which received nearly one million votes. So Bedas' victory can be said to be absolute in the 2020 Bandung Regional Head Election," said Cucun.

In addition, according to him, the Bedas pair controlled 30 sub-districts and only lost in one sub-district, namely Rancabali District out of a total of 31 Sub-districts in Bandung Regency.

Meanwhile at the village level, out of 280 villages and sub-districts, the Bedas Pair could win votes in 245 villages and only lost in 35 villages.

"And from 6874 polling stations, the Bedas pair won at 5,535 polling stations, and only lost at 1,333 polling stations, while the votes were the same at six polling stations," said Cucun.

Therefore, Cucun instructed the entire Bedas winning team to guard the votes of Dadang-Sahrul until the meeting to determine the winner by the General Election Commission (KPU) of Bandung Regency.

Cucun asked the entire success team, the witness team, to the sympathizers of the Bedas pair to pay attention to the stages of vote tabulation carried out by the Voting Committee (PPS) from the village, sub-district, to the Regency KPU levels.

"The vote of this pair must continue to be guarded until it is formally determined by the KPU as the elected Regent-Deputy Regent of Bandung," he said.

According to Cucun, if the Bedas pair wins, it will be a new chapter in the history of Bandung Regency.

Because, for nearly 20 years, said Cucun, Bandung development was only dominated by one family.

"The Bedas pair can apparently dispel the myth that the dynasty or the incumbent's family will easily win the battle in the regional elections," he said.