Sandiaga Uno Opportunity To Advance In 2024 Presidential Election With Gerindra

Sandiaga Uno (Photo by Ig @sandiuno)

JAKARTA - Executive Director of Party Watch (Parwa) Institute Muh Jusrianto said the Gerindra Party has the opportunity to carry the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) because it has high electability.

"Sandiaga Uno's electability has always been in the top five in several survey results during May to August 2021. Sandiaga's electability has skyrocketed after he assumed the position of minister," he said in a written statement received in Jakarta, Sunday.

On August 15, 2021, Indonesia Political Opinion (IPO) conducted a survey and placed Sandiaga in third place with a value of 13.5 percent. Then on June 14, 2021, the results of a survey by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC), the electability of the 2019 Vice Presidential Candidate paired with Prabowo Subianto was in fourth place with 6.9 percent gain.

Not only that, the results of the Indicator survey on May 5, 2021 showed Sandiaga was in fifth place with an electability score of 11.1 percent, said Jusrianto.

Not only about electability, Sandiaga Uno's performance as a minister is also quite satisfactory. This is evidenced by the results of three survey institutions that always place Sandiaga in the top three.

"In fact, Puspoll Indonesia on April 20 to 29, 2021 showed that Sandiaga was in the top rank for the best performance with 11.3 percent responding very well, 68.5 percent assessing it quite well," said Jusrianto as quoted by ANTARA.

He considered that the figure of Sandiaga Uno in the national political arena was difficult to predict. In addition, the political career of the former Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta is also full of surprises.

"We'll see in the 2017 DKI Jakarta Pilkada, when Sandiaga first stepped forward in the contest, he was able to raise his voice and win the fight with Anies Baswedan," he said.

It did not stop there, Sandiaga's political career surprise was also continued in the 2019 presidential election, which at that time was paired with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, although in the end he had to admit the superiority of the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin pair who came out as president-elect.

"Then, today Gerindra also entrusts Sandiaga to occupy the seat of the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy," he said.

According to Jusrianto, Sandiaga Uno has a number of valuable assets as a politician. Starting from the capacity or intellectual capital, social capital, economic capital to leadership abilities.

"The 2024 presidential election could be a repeat of the miracle for Sandiaga. For example, Gerindra carries Sandiaga Uno as a presidential candidate or a vice presidential candidate, while Prabowo becomes the king maker," he said.