Want The 2024 NTB Pilkada Followed By 2 Paslon, PAN Establishes Communication With PKB

Chairman of the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) PAN DPW, H. Muazzim Akbar. (ANTARA/Nur Imansyah).

JAKARTA - PAN wants the Pilkada of the Governor and Deputy Governor of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) on November 27 to be followed by two pairs of candidates (paslon).

"There is no need for a lot of candidate pairs. If possible, the governor and deputy governor only have two pairs to 'head to head'," said the chairman of the NTB PAN DPW, Muazzim Akbar in his statement, Sunday, June 23, as quoted by Antara.

Muazzim admitted that currently PAN together with parties that are members of the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) such as the Golkar Party, Gerindra, Democrats, and the Crescent Star Party (PBB) through their respective general chairmen are seriously building intensive political communication to build a major coalition in the NTB Pilkada.

In fact, to smooth the move, Muazzim continued, his communication not only involved the parties in KIM's ranks, but they also invited PKB to join.

"God willing, PKB will also join this coalition. Hopefully it can," he said.

Regarding who the candidate pair for governor and deputy governor will be who will be encouraged if the NTB Pilkada is followed by two pairs of candidates, Muazzim said there were two, namely Lalu Muhamad Iqbal in KIM's carriage against Sitti Rohmi Djalilah, who is currently being pushed by PDIP, Perindo and is likely to cooperate with PPP.

"If there are two pairs of candidates, the winner must embrace the losers, so that the leadership process can run well," said Muazzim.

Meanwhile, PAN itself, said Muazzim, has given a recommendation to the former Indonesian Ambassador to Turkey who now serves as Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu) Lalu Muhamad Iqbal as a candidate for governor. Meanwhile, regarding who Lalu Muhamad Iqbal was paired, Muazzim stated that he was most likely paired with the Regent of Bima Indah Dhamayanti Putri or often called Ummi Dinda.

"We have given the recommendation to Pak Lalu Muhamad Iqbal in pairs with Ummi Dinda," he explained.

Recommendations to Lalu Muhamad Iqbal continued Muazzim, to B1KWK. However, this B1KWK will only be submitted before registration to the KPU, namely August.

"God willing, we will issue the new B1KWK in August ahead of registration," said the man who was elected as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the NTB 2 electoral district (Dapil) Lombok Island.

Separately responding to the plan of two pairs of candidates in the NTB Pilkada, the chairman of the NTB National Awakening Party (PKB) DPW, Lalu Hadrian Irfani admitted that everything was still dynamic, although he did not deny that the plan for the two pairs of candidates could have happened. Because, if you look at the polarization of the packages of candidate pairs for governor and deputy governor as well as the direction of support for the parties that currently exist, they have begun to be seen to be narrowed.

"This has begun to be divided into parties, it has begun to seem narrowing. For example, PAN, the Democrats have stated to Iqbal that they have not joined and I think KIM is all there. The rest of these non- KIM parties have PKB and NasDem. So seeing this condition, the PKB seat is very decisive," he said.

According to him, why is PKB so decisive, because PKB has 6 seats in the NTB DPRD, while NasDem only has 4 seats. For that, if NasDem joins PKS by carrying Zulkieflimansyah-Suhaili (Bang Zul-Abah Uhel), of course, the number of seats is still lacking, because only 12 seats are sufficient, while 13 seats are needed to carry candidates.

Therefore, he continued, if PKB joins PKS, the number of seats will be sufficient, then the NTB Pilkada will be followed by three pairs of candidates. However, if that does not happen, it is automatically possible that the NTB Pilkada will be followed by two pairs of candidates.

"So seeing this condition, the PKB seat is very decisive," he said.

It is known that the NTB Pilkada in the gadang-gadang will be attended by a number of candidates for governor and deputy governor, including Lalu Muhamad Iqbal will be paired with Indah Dhamayanti Putri, then Sitti Rohmi Djalilah is paired with Musyafirin, then Zulkieflimansyah is paired with Suhaili FT and Lalu Gita Ariadi is paired with Sukiman Azmy. However, so far, none of the names have been confirmed to have received a coalition party.