PPP Admits The Names Mahfud MD And Khofifah Entered Ganjar's Vice Presidential Radar, But Still Encourages Sandiaga

Ganjar Pranowo (Photo of the Ganjar Campaign Team)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Advisory Council of PPP Muhammad Romahurmuziy (Romy), admitted that he heard the names Mahfud MD (MMD) and Khofifah Indar Parawansa (KIP) being included in the vice presidential exchange, a companion to Ganjar Pranowo. Namun Romy menegaskan, PPP masih terus mendorong nama Ketua Bappilu PPP Sandiaga Uno agar dipilih Ketum PDIP Megawati Soekarnoputri sebagai pasangan Ganjar di Pilpres 2024. Romy said Mahfud had indeed met Megawati and PPP Chairman Mardiono. However, the meeting was not specific about the candidacy. Romy said, as a party that was born by NU, PPP appreciated the efforts to pair NU figures to Mas Ganjar as part of the effort to win the 2024 presidential election. "However, according to the mandate of the PPP Rapimnas 17-18 June 2023, PPP is currently still in a position to encourage Sandiaga Uno, as a national figure who has all the objective components needed by Mas Ganjar," Romy told reporters, Monday, October 2. Romy understands that Mahfud and Khofifah are NU figures who have been circulating on the national political stage for more than two decades, are known to have integrity, and have experience in a number of public positions. "In particular, even MMD when it first became Minister of Defense in 1999 was departing from PPP, as confirmed by MMD itself in several meetings, last Saturday, September 30, last," Meanwhile, Khofifah, continued Romy, is not a foreign figure for PPP. Because the East Java governor has a trail as a PPP spokesman when he was a member of the PPP faction at the 1997 MPR general assembly which echoed the principle of the jurdil election for the first time in the New Order era. "In fact, PPP was the only parliamentary party to carry KIP as the 2008 East Java cagub, where I acted as the head of the winning team registered at the East Java KPUD at that time. The PPP investigation was repeated in the 2018 East Java Pilkada, when I was the General Chair, who led KIP to become the current Governor of East Java," said Romy. However, according to Romy, Sandi is a KartaNU holder who was handed over by Kyai Said Aqil himself, balances Java-Outer Java geography, and has an economic background that will complete the background of the Ganjar Mas Polhukam. "Sandiaga is also the only vice presidential name that has ever been on a ballot card, so that its popularity is evenly distributed nationally and its electability is highest as a vice presidential candidate. Fan base Sandi, which is specific among millennials and mothers, also fulfills Ganjar, who excels among Gen-X and Baby Boomers," Romy explained. Therefore, Romy said, PPP together with PDIP and other members of political cooperation continue to carefully observe the projected contribution of votes from these installations, districts for districts.

"We continue to dive into the hearts and absorb the aspirations of the people, until time we have to make decisions. So that political parties as national leadership reproductive institutions, present the best leadership pairs able to bring Indonesia into a great nation," he concluded.