Pilkada Still Potentially Colored By Cawe-Cawe Rulers

The book entitled 2024 Presidential Election and President Jokowi's Cawe-Cawe, written by SBY ahead of the 2024 presidential election. (Photo: Special)

JAKARTA Unesa's political observer, Agus Mahfudz assessed that the implementation of the campaign until before the vote in the 2024 Pilkada still has the potential to be colored by chaos from the authorities because every political party has moved to win the candidate pairs carried out in all regions.

Parpol has an interest in winning the champion. If it is political ammunition in nature, ammunition is material in nature, maybe there are several political parties who do that," he said, Sunday, September 22.

According to him, this practice of political ammunition is in the form of distributing materials to several candidates in each region.

When connected to the state, in this context it is power or ruler, even though there are actually regulations that regulate it.

Mahfudz explained that in the existing regulations the authorities would not be able to intervene in the course of the Pilkada.

However, he suspects, the authorities will still be able to intervene or joke at the 2024 Pilkada event.

He gave an example, the authorities could do hidden things by attending government-mandatory agendas but at the same time intending to direct support for regional head candidates.

The potential is always there, that they will use methods that are considered legal. Considered not to be questioned or there is a hidden agenda. Rulers can hide through various agendas of government, power, but actually work on the party needs of existing candidates," said Mahfudz.