Ganjar Is Projected To 'jump' To NasDem, Central Java PDIP Could Split

Ganjar Pranowo (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The internal polemic of the PDI-P is widening. It is said that Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo could have moved political parties if the PDIP did not accommodate him, one of which was to NasDem.

"There is a possibility that Ganjar Pranowo will move to another political party (Nasdem, ed), if PDIP is not accommodated on stage in the 2024 presidential election contestation," said political observer at Al Azhar Indonesia University, Andriadi Achmad, to VOI, Monday, May 31.

According to him, Ganjar's steadily increasing electability allows him to be close to the chance to run for the 2024 presidential election. Moreover, if the PDIP wants to carry him, the position of governor of Central Java for the two periods can replace Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan.

"Given that Ganjar Pranowo's electability is in the top three. Even if it was encouraged and supported by the PDIP from an early age, Ganjar Pranowo's electability could have shot to the first position competing with Prabowo and Anies Baswedan," said the executive director of the Nusantara Institute PolCom SRC.

On the other hand, he continued, the PDI-P will fall and lose the stage, and even lose the presidential seat if it is wrong in calculating the 2024 presidential candidate.

"The fall of PDIP's choice to Jokowi (outside the Soekarno breed, ed) in the 2014 presidential election is proof that any cadre who has the potential and has high electability can be proposed as a PDIP presidential candidate. Likewise in the 2024 presidential election, if Puan is a cadre (Soekarno breed, ed) does not show a high level of electability, then other cadres, such as Ganjar Pranowo, can be proposed as presidential candidates in 2024," he explained.

However, the ticket for the PDIP presidential candidate is in the hands of chairman Megawati Soekarnoputri. Where in the Indonesian political system, the leader of the solidarity maker type or the good father in a political party is still the main determinant of the way the political party leaves.

However, if Ganjar really does change parties, Andriadi predicts the Central Java PDIP will split into a joint venture.

"If Ganjar Pranowo moves to NasDem, his loyalists will also move and that could cause the PDIP to break up, especially in Central Java and Indonesia in general," said Andriadi.

Of course this will harm PDIP electorally and benefit NasDem.

"NasDem's voice shot up in the 2014 and 2019 elections, because from the start it supported Jokowi as the 2014 and 2019 presidential candidates," concluded Andriadi.