Vice President Affirms Important Candidate Debate Material: So People Know, Candidates Master Problems Or Not

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin/ANTARA/Yashinta Difa)

DENPASAR - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin assessed that the material used as material in the special debate for vice presidential candidates was important to the public.

"Oh, yes, of course it is useful, so people know, you know that (the vice president) controls the problem or not, so you know the problem," he said.

Ma'ruf when met on the sidelines of the Appreciation and Submission of the Evaluation Results of the Government Agencies Performance Accountability System (SAKIP), Bureaucratic Reform (RB), and the 2023 Integrity Zone (ZI) in Nusa Dua, Bali reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 6.

This was conveyed by the Vice President in response to the discourse on removing the special debate for the vice presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election campaign series and will be replaced with a vice presidential debate accompanied by presidential candidates.

"In the last election, (the debate session) there were three kinds: there was a debate between the pair (candidate and vice presidential candidate), there was only a presidential candidate debate on its own, there was a vice presidential debate on its own," said Vice President Ma'ruf.

Regarding the proposed debate material, Ma'ruf said it was the authority of the General Elections Commission (KPU).

"I think that later the KPU will judge what our concern will be in future development," he said.

The KPU plans to finalize the technical discussion in the implementation of the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) debate on Wednesday. KPU chairman Hasyim Asy'ari said his party had communicated to the winning team of each candidate pair (paslon) to attend the meeting.

He said the meeting would discuss in more detail some technical matters regarding the implementation of the debate later. "Regarding the debate format, debate theme, panelist, and moderator," said Hasyim.

The KPU on Wednesday (29/11), decided that all debate activities would be broadcast live on a number of national television (TV) and other electronic media channels.

The implementation of the first and second debates on December 12 and 22 to close at the end of 2023, then continued on January 7 and 21, and finally on February 4, 2024.

The first debate will take the theme related to law, human rights (HAM), government, eradication of corruption, and strengthening democracy.