Will Compete With The Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidate Seats, Democrats Boast That The Coalition Of The 5 Great Political Parties Is Difficult To Realize

Ketum Parpol in a friendly meeting with President Jokowi/PHOTO via Instagram Ketum PAN Zulkifli Hasan

JAKARTA - Member of the High Council of the Democratic Party, Syarief Hasan, also spoke about the discourse of forming a major coalition that combines the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Greater Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR). Syarief Hasan boasted that the formation of a large coalition would be difficult to materialize. Because, there will be many considerations because the five coalition initiators will fight for each other's seat or vice presidential candidate. "I don't think it's easy to join everything there. Who wants to be a presidential candidate, who wants to be vice president, so many are taken into consideration, it's not easy," said Syarief, Thursday, April 6. According to him, all political parties must want their cadres to be nominated as presidential or vice presidential candidates. Therefore, it is not easy for these parties to sacrifice their cadres not to get a share at the 2024 presidential election. "Yes, right? Because this is the presidential election, all parties want their cadres to be something meaningful for them, right?," said Syarief. However, Syarief still invited the political parties to build a large coalition. "But let it go, it's okay," he added. Meanwhile, Gerindra Party Chairman Prabowo Subianto is confident that the determination of presidential candidates from the big coalition will not be tough if five political parties supporting President Joko Widodo's government are formed. Because according to him, the five political party leaders already know each other and are friends. "We, among these figures, already know each other and I see the relationship is good, and we are friends," Prabowo told reporters in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Wednesday, April 5. Prabowo admitted that the personal relationship with the Chairman of PAN, Golkar, PPP was quite close. Moreover, with the Head of PKB who is a partner of the Greater Indonesia Awakening Coalition. "For example, my relationship with Pak Zulhasan, with Pak Airlangga is good, with Mr. Mardiono, what else is Mr. Muhaimin," he said. Therefore, the Minister of Defense assessed that the discussion about the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and even the determination would not take long.

"So, I don't think it will be tough. I don't know, maybe the observer is more smart than me, hahaha," he said with a laugh. "I don't feel tough, I feel like this is all friends. We are all red and white, we don't have to doubt them anymore," added Prabowo.