Regarding Moral Ethics, Gerindra Reminds Anies: 2,300 Cadres Help Win The 2017 DKI Regional Election

(Kiri ke kanan) Ganjar, Prabowo and Anies, three presidential candidates fought in the inaugural 2024 presidential election debate on Tuesday 12 December night. (doc VOI)

JAKARTA - Secretary General (Secretary General) of the Gerindra Party Ahmad Muzani brought up the 2017 DKI Jakarta Pilkada democracy party when the Gerindra Party won Anies Baswedan as governor of DKI Jakarta.

"I lowered at that time approximately 2,300 cadres from all over Indonesia to win Anies," said Muzani when met on the sidelines of the Gerindra Party National Coordination Meeting at JIEXpo Kemayoran, Jakarta, Friday, December 15, which was confiscated by Antara.

Muzani said this to answer the media crew's question about Anies Baswedan's debt to the Gerindra Party when he was elected governor of DKI Jakarta.

In fact, continued Muzani, thousands of Gerindra Party cadres were willing to take to the streets to seek support so that Anies became governor of DKI Jakarta. Muzani also admitted to interfering in efforts to win over Anies Baswedan.

"The witness came to the TPS-TPS (voting station), RT-RT in Jakarta, slept on the overhang of the RT-RT, slept in the mosque, slept in the prayer room, slept in the places of the taklim assembly, to win Mr. Anies," said Muzani.

When asked if the Gerindra Party felt Anies had a debt of gratitude to the party, Muzani was reluctant to answer.

Previously, in the first debate for the 2024 presidential candidate, Tuesday, December 12, Prabowo considered Anies' opinion about the decline in democracy in Indonesia to be too excessive.

According to Prabowo, Anies, who was promoted by the Gerindra Party, could be elected governor of DKI Jakarta as the result of the democratic process.

"If democracy does not work, (then) it is impossible for you to become governor," Prabowo told Anies.

The Indonesian KPU has received registrations for three presidential-cawapres candidates, namely Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, and Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

The election campaign period is set from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, while the voting is scheduled for February 14, 2024.