Airlangga Has Given A Letter Of Assignment To Musa Rajekshah Forward Cagub For The 2024 North Sumatra Pilkada

Chairman of the Golkar Party Airlangga Hartarto at the Golkar Party DPP Office, Jakarta, Monday (26/2/2024). (ANTARA/Bagus Ahmad Rizaldi)

Golkar Party Chairman Airlangga Hartarto revealed that he had given a letter of assignment to the Chairman of the North Sumatra Golkar Party DPD Musa Rajekshah to run as a candidate for governor in the 2024 North Sumatra Pilkada. "The assignment letter has also been given," said Airlangga when giving a speech at the Launch and Book Surgery event: Jalan Tengah Group Karya at the Golkar Party DPP Office, Jakarta, Antara, Monday, February 26. According to him, the number of parliamentary seats from the North Sumatra electoral district is predicted to increase based on the calculation, so it is only natural that Musa Rajekshah, familiarly called Ijeck, becomes a candidate for governor of North Sumatra. "This is North Sumatra, so all North Sumatra seats have doubled," he said. The increase in seat acquisition, Airlangga added, is the key for the party bearing the banyan tree to be able to run fast in the 2024 election. According to him, anyone who wants to be governor must first move forward as a legislative candidate. "If the voice is high, then we will give it. If not, then you have to go on the way first, on the way," he said. Based on the results of quick calculations on the official website of the Indonesian KPU on Monday, the Golkar Party was ranked first in the 2024 General Election for the DPR RI in the Electoral Region (Dapil) of North Sumatra I with 19.53 percent of the votes. In the electoral district, the name Musa Rajekshah is one of the most received votes with more than 30 thousand votes. Musa is a former Deputy Governor of North Sumatra who accompanied Edy Rahmayadi from 2018 to 2023.

Simultaneous regional elections for the election of governors and deputy governors, regents and deputy regents, as well as mayors and deputy mayors throughout Indonesia are scheduled to take place on November 27, 2024, according to the agreement between Commission II of the DPR RI and the government and election organizers.