Mahfud Responds Prabowo Invites 'Ngobrol' Outside The Debate Stage: If You Talk About The Two Of Them The Name Is Reshuffle

Vice President Mahfud MD at GOR Dharma Ayu, Indramayu Regency, West Java, Monday (8/1/2024). ANTARA/Devi Nindy)

INDRAMAYU - Cawapres Mahfud MD gave a response regarding the defense budget data that should have been opened to the public during the third debate of the 2024 presidential election.

"If the budget is opened to the public, it is a responsibility to the public. Not to talk to the data, one has already talked about this data, then he will talk to the two of them later, it's not allowed," said Mahfud in Indramayu, West Java, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, January 8.

The statement was in response to the presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto who is also the Minister of Defense who invited other presidential candidates to show defense budget data outside the third presidential election debate held by the General Elections Commission (KPU).

"This is a debate, it must also be explained to the public, it's wrong for the data here, I have it like that. If you invite by the two of them, the name is a blow, not a debate," he said.

In addition, according to him, in a debate event Prabowo should be able to open his data, not invite him to talk to each other.

It was also emphasized that not everything that was asked was a state secret because there were things regulated in the law such as desertion, defense strategy, and intelligence data.

On the other hand, Mahfud MD said that there was nothing debated from the public regarding the budget data.

"Paslon number 3 won in all lines, there was no debate," he said.