Zulkifli Hasan Concerning Prabowo Subianto's Companion: If PAN Yes Erick Thohir, Take Note!

PAN General Chair Zulkifli Hasan attended the Prophet Muhammad SAW 1445 Hijriyah birthday at the residence of UN Secretary General Afriansyah Noor,/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Chairman of the DPP National Mandate Party (PAN) Zulkifli Hasan or Zulhas said his party would continue to carry Erick Thohir to accompany presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres). " “ If PAN is Mr. Erick Thohir, Mr. Erick Thohir is recorded,” said Zulhas when giving a press statement after attending the Prophet Muhammad SAW 1445 Hijriyah birthday at the residence of the UN Secretary General Afriansyah Noor, Jakarta, Antara, Sunday, October 8. He said that regarding the names proposed by a number of parties as a presidential candidate for Prabowo's companions, such as the Governor of East Java Khofifah Indar Parawansa and the Mayor of Solo Gibran Rakabuming Raka, both were great people. Zuhas said that the Forward Indonesia Coalition (KIM) is also still discussing who is right to accompany Prabowo so that he can get the most votes and win the 2024 presidential election contestation. According to him, KIM, which includes the Gerindra Party, Golkar, PAN, Democratic Party, Gelora Party, PBB, and Garuda Party, is a coalition full of kinship, brotherhood, and deliberation, so that the consensus taken is really carefully considered. "Later on, please propose something else. Later we will be discussed, we want to win. If this (the name of the vice president) is what, what about this, ” he said. Previously, Volunteers for the Solidarity of Young Ulama Jokowi (Samawi) declared support for the presidential candidate (readpres) promoted by the Forward Indonesia Coalition (KIM) Prabowo Subianto because he was considered to have the ability to lead the Indonesian nation. In the declaration, the General Chairperson (Ketum) of Samawi Muhammad Nahdy said that Samawi supports Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a candidate for vice president who will accompany Prabowo in the 2024 presidential election contestation (Pilpres). "We also view that the demographic bonus must be responded to with real partiality to young people," said Nahdy in Jakarta, Saturday (7/10). Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, 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.