JAKARTA - PAN and PPP who are members of the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) said they were open to the Ganjar Pranowo-Erick Thohir duet in the 2024 presidential election. However, the Golkar Party showed a different attitude.

Golkar is still adamant in its support and will propose its general chairman, Airlangga Hartarto, to KIB, to be pushed to become the 2024 presidential candidate. According to political observer Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, the difference in the attitudes of the three KIB member parties is because there is still no agreement regarding the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"I see, KIB so far doesn't have a coalition adhesive glue. The coalition adhesive glue is a candidate, while so far KIB has not declared presidential and vice presidential candidates from 3 political parties, either Golkar, PPP, or PAN," Pangi said in Jakarta, Monday, February 27.

The Executive Director of Voxpol Research and Consulting added PPP, PAN, and Golkar are currently still looking for the right presidential and vice presidential candidates for KIB so they cannot yet agree on one vote.

Therefore, continued Pangi, the matter of presidential and vice presidential candidates from KIB member parties leads to many names. In fact, general chairmen who are eyeing presidential election tickets are also still limited to vice presidential candidate opportunities.

"So far there are no potential presidential and vice presidential candidates from KIB cadres, their positioning [party cadres who are members of KIB] are only vice presidential candidates. Of course, the parties in the KIB coalition also see potential and a chance of winning," Pangi explained.

Regarding Golkar, Pangi emphasized that the banyan tree party will certainly continue to insist on carrying Airlangga as the 2024 presidential candidate.

Whereas PAN endorsed Ganjar Pranowo-Erick Thohir and was welcomed by PPP, on the basis of the duet was felt that they had a big chance in the 2024 Presidential Election. "That's part of the strategy, to support the presidential-vice presidential candidate pair who will win," he added.

Previously, the General Chairperson (Ketum) of PAN Zulkifli Hasana alias Zulhas openly supported the Ganjar Pranowo-Erick Thohir pair as the 2024 Presidential-Vice Presidential candidate pair.

This support was conveyed by Zulhas in front of President Joko Widodo (Widodo) at the opening of the PAN National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) in Semarang, Central Java, Sunday, February 26.

Unexpectedly, PAN's support for the Ganjar-Erick duo was welcomed by PPP, who is a PAN coalition partner in KIB. PPP even said that the two names were included in the party's radar.

In contrast to PPP, Golkar actually emphasized that it would still carry Airlangga Hartarto as the 2024 presidential candidate and would submit it to KIB. Even so, Golkar does not want to interfere in the decisions of other KIB member parties regarding presidential nominations.


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