AMIN National Team Calls Grace Natalie Approaching Moderators In The Presidential Candidate Debate Instead Of Losing Prabowo

Spokesperson For The National Team For The Winning Of Anies-Muhaimin (AMINAn National Team) Billy David Neututumilena/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the National Team for the Winning of Anies-Muhaimin (AmIN National Team) Billy David Neututumilena responded to the actions of two elite Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) politicians Grace Natalie and Isyana Bagoes Oka who approached the presidential candidate debate moderator, Sunday, January 7.

Grace has clarified that she and Isyana approached the moderator table during the commercial break to protest the behavior of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair serial number 3 Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD, whose position is right behind the moderator.

Supporter of presidential and vice presidential candidates number 2 Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka considers this action to interfere with the concentration of presidential candidates who are undergoing debate at the position in front of the moderator.

However, Billy thinks this will lead to a different perception from Grace's clarification. Moreover, according to Billy, the arrival of Grace and Isyana to the moderator table will actually harm Prabowo and Gibran.

"That can lead to opinions, and of course we are not the ones who are harmed, it is 02 who are disadvantaged. It can lead to opinions on how to take sides. That can be assumed as an intervention," said Billy at the AMIN National Team Winning Headquarters, Central Jakarta, Monday, January 8.

Billy also asked the General Elections Commission (KPU) to reprimand the candidate pair 02 camp in the evaluation of the third debate as well as preparation for the fourth debate.

"It should be carried out at the evaluation stage after the debate, not during the debate and we regret that too," said Billy.

Previously, a viral video on social media showed Grace Natalie and Isyana Bagoes Oka approaching the moderator during the third debate commercial break. In the video, Grace and Isyana's voice while talking to the moderator was not heard because it was recorded from a distance.

Grace immediately clarified. This member of the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) admitted that he approached the moderator because he wanted to ask if supporters behind the moderator were allowed to raise their hands high as if they wanted to break the concentration of the presidential candidate who was talking.

"We asked the moderator in the middle of the break. All candidate pairs were out of the arena. Isyana recorded all the gestures as evidence and showed them to the moderator," Grace told reporters.

"Because the candidate pair must have caught the eye. It was in the perspective of the candidate pair, right behind the moderator. The answer time was only 2 minutes, you had to focus and think," he continued.