The UnGREEd Drama Behind Anies' Attack On Prabowo

Prabowo Subianto during the third presidential candidate / Photo debate; Doc. VOI

The Third Debate for the Presidential Election or the 2024 Presidential Election led to a drama between Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan. The two presidential or presidential candidates did not shake hands after arguing.

After the debate, Anies did not shake hands with Prabowo. The reason was that he did not meet the figure of the man who now serves as Minister of Defense or Minister of Defense.

"After I finished I looked for it but it wasn't there. So I don't know where to shake hands," said Anies.

Meanwhile, on a different occasion, Prabowo argued that he did not shake hands because Anies did not come to him.

According to him, Anies is the junior so that the presidential candidate promoted by Nasdem should have approached him first.

"Well he didn't come to me, I'm older than him. I'm senior than him," said Prabowo.

Anies is known to often 'attack' Prabowo during the 2024 presidential election debate. One of them is about 'insiders' at the Ministry of Defense (Kemenhan) and then quipped about ethical violations at the Constitutional Court (MK).

Prabowo responded to Anies as if with emotion. Because, he stated that Anies Baswedan did not deserve to talk about ethics. In fact, the statement by the presidential candidate number one was considered misleading.

"So where is the problem, now you are talking about ethics, right? I object because I apologize, because you urged me. I can be honest, I think you don't deserve to talk about ethics, that's all," he said.

"I feel that you are postulating, misleading, that's all. I can argue? I think you have no right to talk about ethics because you set an example that is not good about ethics," Prabowo concluded.