Gerindra Respects PPP's Decision Proposes Sandiaga To Be A Vice Presidential Candidate For Ganjar's Assistant

Ganjar Pranowo and Sandiaga Uno were speakers at TPAKD meetings throughout Central Java at the Gumaya Semarang hotel, Thursday, April 27. (Ist)

JAKARTA - The daily chairman of the Gerindra Party DPP, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, said that his party respects the PPP decision to propose Sandiaga Uno as a candidate for presidential candidate (candidate) accompanying the PDI-P presidential candidate (PDIP) Ganjar Pranowo.

"I think there is no problem with Gerindra and we respect and respect the rights of every political party or person per person who is involved in politics in Indonesia," Dasco told reporters after giving a speech at the event 'The Grand Consolidation of Gerindra Party Management and Cadres West Jakarta Party' at the Kebon Jeruk Stadium Field, Jakarta, Sunday, June 18, was confiscated by Antara.

He added that the proposal was the right of PPP as well as Sandiaga, who has now officially become the Chairman of the PPP Election Winning Body.

Next, Dasco said PPP and Sandi would become political rivals of Gerindra in the 2024 election.

"Yes, it (Sandi with PPP and Gerindra) rivals only during the legislative and presidential elections. (But we are still) both the nation's children, it's okay," he said.

Previously, the PPP DPP recommended the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno as a candidate for vice president to accompany Ganjar Pranowo in the 2024 presidential election.

This was conveyed by the Secretary General of the PPP DPP Muhamad Arwani Thomafi at the VI PPP National Leadership Meeting (Rapimnas) at the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta, Saturday, June 17.

"We will read out the recommendation of the 6th National Leadership Meeting regarding the presidential election that PPP proposed Brother Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno as a vice presidential candidate to accompany presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo in the 2024 General Election," said Arwani.

Based on the schedule set by the General Elections Commission (KPU), the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR.

Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. In addition, candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.