PDIP Officially Provides Support For Edy Rahmayadi To Advance In North Sumatra's Pilkada

PDI-P General Chair Megawati Soekarnoputri after submitting a recommendation letter to regional heads and deputy regional heads/DOK ANTARA

The PDI-P has officially provided support to Edy Rahmayadi as a candidate for governor in the 2024 North Sumatra Pilkada (North Sumatra). This was conveyed by PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto at the PDIP DPP Office, Jakarta, Wednesday, August 14. "We report to the Chairperson of the PDI-P, Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri, that the total number of candidate pairs for regional heads and candidates for deputy regional heads that have been decided by Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri and announced today comes from 305 regions, as many as 13 provinces," said Hasto. "That is North Sumatra Province Lieutenant General TNI Retired Edy Rahmayadi," he continued. Previously, last Saturday, August 10, the PDI-P submitted a letter of assignment to Edy Rahmayadi to run as a candidate for governor (cagub) of North Sumatra in the 2024 Simultaneous Pilkada. The handover of the assignment letter was handed over directly to the Chairperson of the PDIP DPP for Honorary Affairs, Komarudin Watubun, at the Cakra Buana PDI Perjuangan Task Force Apple event, in Medan, Saturday. "I and the ranks of the DPP, the ranks of the Task Force from the center, were assigned by the Chairperson of the PDI-P to hand over the party duties to Mr. Lieutenant General Edy Rahmayadi later as Governor of North Sumatra," said Komarudin Watubun. Komarudin Watubun explained that in the assignment letter, Edy Rahmayadi was asked to carry out a number of tasks including conducting internal consolidation and conducting political mappings to face the upcoming 2024 Pilkada. "Lieutenant General Purnawirawan Edy Rahmayadi as a candidate for governor of North Sumatra to carry out consolidation in 2024 to PDI-P, DPC to branches and branches for winning," he said. In the 2024 General Election in North Sumatra, Megawati Soekarnoputri's party received 21 seats out of 100 seats in the North Sumatra Provincial DPRD which automatically met the requirements of 20 percent of the seat acquisition to carry the governor-deputy governor-deputy candidates.

The handover of the assignment letter was attended by thousands of people from cadres to PDI-P sympathizers and administrators from the PDI-P DPP to the North Sumatra PDI-P DPD management. "Mr. Edy, we welcome your independence. We have gathered to risk our body and soul, for Indonesia. Pak Edy today, Pertiwi is calling you," he said.