Gerindra Denies Independent Candidate For Pilgub Jakarta Scenario From KIM Plus

Ridwan Kamil-Suswono/ANTARA PHOTO/Muhammad Adimaja/tom.

JAKARTA - Gerindra Party Daily Chair Sufmi Dasco Ahmad denied the assumption that the independent candidate in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Regional Head Election (Pilkada) was a scenario from the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) Plus.

"For scenarios, KIM Plus has also recently formed, meanwhile the independent candidate list has been around for a long time. That's right," said Dasco as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, August 19.

Dasco said that independent candidates in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Pilkada had been registering for a long time. The progress of these independent candidates, he said, was part of democracy.

"We are also not surprised because in DKI this is not the first time an independent candidate has been able to advance. Judging from the history of the DKI Pilkada, one of our cadres, Pak [Ahmad] Riza Patria, has also advanced and qualified to fight as an independent candidate," said Dasco.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta KPU, Thursday (15/8), stated that the candidate pair for governor and deputy governor of the independent route, Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana Abyoto, would be eligible to run in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Pilkada. Dharma-Kun managed to collect as many as 677,467 supports.

The DKI Jakarta KPU said the Dharma-Kun pair went through a long process to pass the factual verification of the two independent candidates. Dharma-Kun delivered the requirements for supporting forward as an independent candidate to the DKI Jakarta KPU on Sunday, May 12, 2024.

Meanwhile, KIM Plus officially carries the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair for the DKI Jakarta Pilkada today, Monday afternoon.

A total of 12 parties joined to support the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair, namely the Gerindra Party, the Golkar Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, the NasDem Party, the National Awakening Party, the Indonesian Solidarity Party, the Democratic Party, the National Mandate Party, the Garuda Party, the Gelora Party, the Perindo Party, and the United Development Party.