PDIP Opens Opportunities To Promote Bobby Nasution In The North Sumatra Gubernatorial Election

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Chairman of the Central Executive Board (DPP) of the PDI-P (PDIP) Puan Maharani opens up opportunities for her party to participate in carrying Bobby Nasution as a candidate for Governor of North Sumatra in the 2024 Pilkada.

"It could be (by Bobby)," said Puan when met at the PDIP DPP Party School, Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta, Friday, July 5.

However, Puan emphasized that the PDIP, which has 21 seats from the results of the 2024 Pilleg of the North Sumatra DPRD, has not yet decided who the prospective candidates will be given the recommendation for the investigation in the North Sumatra gubernatorial election.

"There has been no decision, but it could be," said Puan.

It is known that PKB has become a party that recently submitted a nomination recommendation to Bobby Nasution to become a candidate for Governor of North Sumatra in the 2024 Pilkada. This recommendation decree (SK) was given directly to the Mayor of Medan.

"In the decree, he gave a decision and appointed Mas Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution as a candidate for Governor of North Sumatra," said Deputy Chairperson of PKB Jazilul Fawaid at the PKB DPP office, Central Jakarta, Thursday, July 7.

Jazilul said that Bobby had now pocketed recommendations for the eviction of 7 parties. Several parties had previously announced that they would carry President Joko Widodo's son-in-law in the North Sumatra gubernatorial election.

"There are PKB, Golkar, Gerindra, NasDem, PAN, Democrats, PPP. So, a lot. That means, this is a big coalition, if we call it, it is a super coalition that implies, showing that the light of victory is in Mas Bobby," said Jazilul.

PKB also proposed the name of celebrity Nagita Slavina to be Bobby's deputy governor candidate.

"I conveyed to Mas Bobby, indeed this is the era of social media, we propose that Mbak Nagita Slavina be accompanying him," he added.