Bobby Supported By 7 Political Parties In The North Sumatra Gubernatorial Election, Djarot PDIP: Is It A Capacity Factor Or Influence Of In-laws?

PDIP DPP Chairman Djarot Syaiful Hidayat/PHOTO: Nailin In Saroh-VOI

JAKARTA - Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution has so far pocketed support from seven political parties to run as governor candidates in the North Sumatra Pilkada (North Sumatra).

PDIP DPP chairman Djarot Syaiful Hidayat actually questioned the reason for the support of the 7 political parties. Did you see Bobby's capacity or influence from his in-laws, namely President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

"Pilkada Sumut ya? Untuk mas Bobby sudah dapat (supportan 7 parpol, red), itu karena mas Bobbynya atau karena in-laws? Itu pertanyaannya," ujar Djarot, Selasa, 9 Juli.

According to Djarot, PDIP has yet to determine the cagub to be carried because it is still listening to the voices of the people regarding who the figure wants. Although, Edy Rahmayadi has already taken a form to run for this bull party.

"So it's not necessarily true, there are a lot of party supporters, giants, fat ones, supercoalists or supers, yes, really fat, yes, that's not necessarily (win, ed). Because it's the people who determine it," said the former governor of DKI Jakarta. "Yes, so that's just my question. That's really because of the capacity factor of Bobby, or because of the influence factor from his father-in-law?," continued Djarot.

Regarding whether PDIP will nominate its own cadres or other figures, Djarot said he still sees the dynamics ahead. However, he admitted that PDIP is still opening communication with other political parties including political parties supporting Bobby.

"What does that mean, in North Sumatra, the PDI-P is relatively safe, right, meaning that it can nominate itself. But we still open communication with party parties that have not joined the sono (7 political parties supporting Bobby)," he concluded.