NasDem Opens The Door If Ganjar Wants To Join, But There Are Conditions

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JAKARTA - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo is advised to change political parties if he wants to continue running for president in the 2024 presidential election, one of which is NasDem. Because the party created by Surya Paloh will open a presidential candidate convention in 2022.

In response to this, the chairman of the NasDem Party DPP Willy Aditya said his party was open to all the existing political dynamics.

"In principle, NasDem is open to all figures who appear. We don't limit ourselves, while at the same time we don't want to be rambling," said Willy to VOI, Monday, May 31.

Willy said the NasDem Party presidential candidate convention must be held with full ticket requirements. Therefore, the party continues to consolidate.

"We have to hold the convention with full ticket requirements, then NasDem is now focused on 2 domains. Building a coalition and adequacy of conditions. Second is preparing convention tools," said the member of Commission I of the DPR.

If Ganjar Pranowo intends to join the presidential candidate convention, Willy said, NasDem is certainly open. Moreover, Ganjar already has a fairly high electability capital.

"You don't have to be a Nasdem cadre to join the convention. Anyone is free," he said.

However, he continued, as the criteria for the presidential candidate promoted by NasDem, the candidate must meet 3 elements as requirements. Namely electability, capability and integrity.

"So far, we have always been monolithic, too electoral heavy. Everything is measured based on electability. So, in fact, this convention wants to present the second and third elements. The second element is capability. The third is integrity," he explained.

"High electability if it is not followed by capability and integrity is also a lie. Then during the convention process a stage will be set up how he will explain what he wants to do, then there will be room for dialogue and public testing," he added.

Willy, the legislator from East Java, said that electability is indeed important in the competition and contestation space. However, for NasDem to become a president, electability alone is not enough.

"This is a matter of being president, so then we also don't forget about integrity and capability in a complete package. Because there is only one president, there are no two presidents, three presidents. So that's what we are trying to advance," said Willy.

The convention called Willy became a new tradition because NasDem would bring the candidate to all provinces for public examination.

"So it's not only in the presidential debate, but the space is re-examined by the public. So it's not just electability," said Willy.