Several Versions Of The Cause Of Ganjar Mahfud's Loss In Banteng Kandang

Illustration of Ganjar Mahfud (Photo of the Ganjar Campaign Team)

YOGYAKARTA The reason why Ganjar Mahfud lost at the Banteng Cage is one of the interesting things to talk about. The reason is, the collection of quick count and exit poll votes shows that the votes for the Ganjar-Mahfud candidate pair in Central Java, which has been the strongest base for PDIP, have actually received low points, which is 34.90 percent.

Meanwhile, the votes obtained by the Prabowo-Gibran candidate pair in Central Java were actually higher, and even far adrift was 51.88 percent. For the Anies-Cak Imin pair, they only got 16.32 percent of the votes. These results make many people think Central Java is no longer a Banteng Cage.

As explained earlier, the votes acquired by the Ganjar-Mahfud candidate pair in Central Java were quite surprising because they did not get quite high results. Apart from Central Java, the same conditions also occurred in several other areas, namely Bali, the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) to East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

Responding to this phenomenon, PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto said that the condition was an anomaly. "In fact, that is one of the anomalies," Hasto Kristiyanto explained to the media at the High End building, Central Jakarta, Thursday, February 15.

According to him, the massive movement of the PDIP structure has been carried out in many areas that are the mainstay of the bull. He also mentioned allegations of intimidation against regional heads from PDIP.

"Because the movement from the structure is very massive, although we see that the elements of the driving force of the PDI-P are like many regional heads from us who are intimidated, by using legal processes," he explained.

Allegations of pressure and intimidation, said Hasto, were felt directly by regional heads who incidentally PDIP. In the future, his party will form a special team to investigate allegations of fraud that occurred during the 2024 election.

Another opinion was also expressed by the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy and Strategic Affairs (Indostrategic) Ahmad Khoirul Umam. He told Kompas that the cause of Ganjar-Mahfud's defeat in Central Java-Bali was due to the shift in the PDI-P vote base.

This phenomenon was triggered by the solidity of the candidate pair 03 loyal voter base which was eroded and then moved to Paslon number 02 Prabowo-Gibran

He also considered that President Jokowi, who was intensely visiting Central Java ahead of the 2024 presidential election, had reaped results.

The political observer at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Mada Sukmajati, also explained the same thing. According to him, President Jokowi has a role in leading the existing prospective voters to other candidate pairs. According to him, Prabowo-Gibran managed to win the attention of the undecided voters ahead of voting day.

"It happened throughout Indonesia to cancel the voters (run to 02) because the trend was almost the same nationally. Not only in Yogyakarta and Central Java, but nationally it is like that. Including in this case, Gen Z and millennials ultimately gave their choice to 02," explained Mada.

In addition, Mada also considered that the nickname Central Java as the Banteng Cage was still valid but only in the context of the Legislative Election. As for the context of the presidential election, it is different. There are several causes of defeat related to the defeat of Ganjar-Mahfud.

First, there is an internal problem between Ganjar and PDIP which makes support not optimal. In addition, Mada also considered that the leadership style of the former governor of Central Java was gray, between adopting Jokowi's style and the effort to revise Jokowi's style which turned out to be impossible so that Ganjar's personification failed to replace Jokowi's personification.

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