PDIP Sultra Supports Puan Maharani To Run For 2024 Presidential Election Pil

Chairman of DPD PDI Perjuangan Sultra, Lukman Abunawas/ANTARA

KENDARI - The Southeast Sulawesi PDI-P DPD said it supported the chairman of the DPR, Puan Maharani, to run in the 2024 presidential election.

The chairman of the DPD PDI Perjuangan Sultra, Lukman Abunawas said their support for Puan was to either run as president or vice president.

"Mrs. Puan, a future leader candidate. We support both the presidential and vice presidential candidates," he said, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 21.

Abunawas said that as a fellow party cadre, he would support Puan Maharani when she ran for the next presidential election.

"This means, as a party, we are obliged to support and adjust. If the PDI-P DPP has directed him, for example, to run as a presidential candidate, it means that we automatically adjust in the DPD structurally," he said.

According to him, support for Puan to run in the 2024 presidential election, has been agreed by cadres and administrators of the PDI-P in Southeast Sulawesi, starting from the DPD, DPC, to sub-branches.

In the 2020 Pilkada, the PDI-P managed to make an extraordinary achievement because its cadres occupied five regional heads, namely three regents and two were elected as deputy regents.

"So we hope that what we got in the successful 2020 Pilkada will continue in the success of the legislative elections, presidential elections, until the 2024 simultaneous regional elections," said the deputy governor of Southeast Sulawesi.

He also said that in Southeast Sulawesi, PDIP had the most seats by placing 63 of its cadres in the district/city DPRD, five people in the Provincial DPRD, and one person in the DPR in the last 2019 election.