PDIP Rocked, PAN Still Supports Khofifah-Emil Dardak In The East Java Gubernatorial Election

Khofifah Indar Parawansa. (ANTARA).

JAKARTA - Secretary General of PAN Eddy Soeparno, responded to the efforts of PDIP Chairman Said Abdullah to match Khofifah Indar Parawansa with his party cadres to run together in the 2024 East Java gubernatorial election.

From the start, said Eddy, PAN had submitted the matter of the candidate for deputy governor of East Java to Khofifah. According to him, Khofifah has also firmly chosen Emil Durdak to return to be her deputy in East Java.

"When Mrs. Khofifah decided to continue her service in East Java together with Mr. EmilDardak, we immediately agreed and immediately formalized the support in the form of a PAN DPP Decree to the Khofifah-Emil Dardak candidate pair," said Eddy in Jakarta, Thursday, June 6.

Eddy emphasized that the PAN decision to carry the Khofifah-Emil pair was final. This support, he said, took into account the achievements of economic development and the welfare of the people of East Java under the Khofifah-Emil government.

"For PAN, this decision is final, we see that this duet is able to improve economic development and the welfare of the people in East Java," he said.

In fact, added Eddy, when Khofifah was predicted to join the Prabowo-Gibran government cabinet, the General Chairperson of the NU Muslimat remained istiqomah to continue and complete homework (PR) in East Java.

"We realize that politics is dynamic, but for PAN the determination of the Khofifah-Emil candidate pair has gone through deep political studies and analysis so that our decision is firm in supporting this 'dream team'," he concluded. Previously, PDIP was still trying to match Khofifah Indar Parawansa with his cadres as a cagub and cawagub pair in the 2024 East Java Pilkada. Although Khofifah had already pocketed a recommendation letter to run again with Emil Dardak from several political parties.

"Mbak Khofifah is everywhere, Mr. Emil Dardak is everywhere, everything is everywhere, the important thing later is that Ms. Khofifah can accept PDIP candidates as the second person, right? The important thing is that," said PDIP DPP Chairman Said Abdullah at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, June 5.

According to Said, Emil Dardak, who was asked to be the spokesman for Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the 2024 presidential election, was suitable to become cabinet minister. Therefore, PDIP offered its party cadres to side by side with Khofifah.

"Emil Dardak is already a minister's class, yes. We will encourage our cadres to get a place as a second person," said the member of the East Java electoral district of the DPR.