PDIP Asks For The Position Of Cawagub If Anies Is In The Jakarta Gubernatorial Election

Ahmad Basarah, Chairman of the PDI-P DPP (Instagram/@ahmadbasarahofficial).

NUSA Dua - Chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) DPP Ahmad Basarah said his party would ask for a candidate for deputy governor (cawagub) if he later agreed to carry Anies Baswedan in the 2024 Jakarta Pilkada.

"It could be that the PDI-P took the position of deputy governor candidate. The deputy governor candidate from the PDI-P," Basarah said at the PKB Mukernas event, Nusa Dua, Bali, Saturday, August 25 evening.

However, the proposed cawagub Anies from PDIP cadres still needs to be discussed again by the former Governor of DKI Jakarta. PDIP will also hear how the consideration determines his partner in the Jakarta gubernatorial election.

What is clear, continued Basarah, is that PDIP and Anies are in the same position. Both of them feel that they are antithesis of oligarchic political efforts.

"Mas Anies and PDIP Perjuangan are brought together by one equality of fate, treated to be eliminated from the political stage, ostracized and so on. So, we both have the same will," he explained.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta PDI-P Regional Leadership Council (DPD) gave a strong signal that it would carry Anies Baswedan in the Jakarta Pilkada contestation.

The signal was seen when the Governor of DKI Jakarta 2017-2022 seemed to be so 'intimacy' with the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta PDI-P DPD, Adi Widjaja, after the two held a meeting. In fact, Adi Widjaja did not deny that it was possible that the PDI-P DPD would choose Anies Baswedan as a Candidate for Governor (Cagub) of DKI Jakarta.

"God willing," Adi told reporters at the PDI-P DPD, Saturday, August 24.

In addition, in a meeting that lasted about an hour, Anies Baswedan and Adi Widjaja also admitted to talking about many things, especially about the 2024 Pilkada. Starting from equalizing vision and mission to discussing guarding the constitution in the right way.

"We equate vision and mission, how we oversee, there is equality we have a view. That we must guard the correct constitution, we must guard the true democracy. That's all," he said.

Meanwhile, Anies added that he would wait for Megawati Soekarnoputri's decision regarding this Pilkada. So, he did not want to boast about whether or not he would be carried by the party bearing the bull symbol

"So we will discuss things related to regional elections. But we are all waiting for the PDIP's decision," said Anies.