Taken As A Candidate For Mayor Of Solo, Gibran Immediately Descends To Meet Grass Roots

Gibran Rakabuming Raka and Teguh Prakosa at the PDIP DPP, Jakarta (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - Candidate for Mayor of Solo from the PDI Perjuangan, Gibran Rakabuming Raka will immediately step down to communicate and consolidate in order to win the 2020 Solo Pilkada contest which will be held on December 9. In this Pilkada, Gibran teamed up with Teguh Prakosa.

"Pak Teguh and I will soon carry out intensive communication, coordination, and consolidation in the internal ranks of the DPC management, branches, to the branch level in the PDIP of Surakarta," said Gibran in a teleconference held in the middle of the Phase II announcement of 45 Regional Head Candidates for the Regional Head Election Simultaneously. , Friday, July 17th.

The intensive communication and consolidation with the grassroots party bearing the bull symbol in Solo City was a direction from the Chairperson of the Solo PDIP DPC who also served as Mayor of Solo, FX Rudi Hadyatmo.

Furthermore, Gibran expressed his gratitude after receiving the blessing of PDIP Chairman Megawati Sukarnoputri. "It is an honor as well as a responsibility to win the contestation," he said.

He thanked Rudi and the head of the PDIP DPP Election Winning Body Bambang Wuryanto for helping him register as a candidate for mayor of Solo.

"Pak Rudi and Pak Bambang directed me in the registration process until the recommendation was dropped," he said.

He said the recommendation he received should be a moment for PDIP to place its best cadres in the Solo Pilkada. "And making the pilkada a forum for mutual cooperation to help people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic," he said.