AMIN National Team Reluctant To Speculate On Anies Praying With Puan

Spokesperson for the National Team for the Winning of Anies-Muhaimin (AMINAn National Team) Billy David Neututumilena (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Anies-Muhaimin National Winning Team (Timnas AMIN) admits that it does not want to speculate anything about the existence of the presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan who shook hands with the Chairman of the PDIP DPP Puan Maharani. Spokesperson for the AMIN National Team Billy David Neututumilena said that the moment of Anies and Puan shaking gave rise to various speculations. He emphasized that his party was still focused on winning Anies-Muhaimin. "It doesn't want to speculate now, if you want to shake hands or don't want to shake hands, there are all kinds of perceptions," said Billy in Jakarta, Monday, January 8. During the third debate of the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections (Pilpres) 2024, last week, there was a moment of Puan shaking hands with Anies and Muhaimin and there was little discussion. According to him, they didn't want to speculate anything about the direction of the coalition going forward over the moment of shaking. Because he also wanted Anies and Muhaimin to enter the next round in the presidential election. He said that his party had calculated that there would be a potential for two rounds of the 2024 presidential election. So according to him, the follow-up coalition will be discussed after the first round is over. "If we will work with anyone, it will be discussed later after the first round is over," said Billy. The General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia on Monday, November 13, 2023, setting three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates to be participants in the 2024 Presidential Election and Vice Presidential Election (Pilpres).

The results of the draw and determination of the number of participants for the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, the pair Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md. serial number 3. KPU has also determined the campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, then the voting schedule on February 14, 2024.