Like A Match In The Football League, Whether Day, Night Or Rain Democrats Are Ready To Participate In The Election

Chairman of the Honorary Council of the Democratic Party Hinca Panjaitan (Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - The government and election organizers are still tugging on the matter of determining the voting day for the 2024 Simultaneous Elections. The factions in the DPR will still discuss it with the general chairmen. As is known until now, the voting date for the 2024 General Election has not been determined because there are still two proposals. The government through the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD proposed a date of 15 May, while the Indonesian KPU wanted the voting to be held on 21 February.

The Democratic Party does not question the two differences in the timing of this general election. Like a football league, the party created by Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono is ready to contest at any time.

"For football players, league organizers determine when the league will be held, club football players are ready at any time, just like that. If the football team is the Democrat FC team, we are ready to compete anytime," said Hinca Panjaitan, Chairman of the Honorary Council of the Democratic Party at the DPR Building, Jakarta, Thursday, Thursday, October 7th.

Do not worry, according to Hinca, the determination of the time for the implementation of the voting is the domain of the regulator, namely the General Elections Commission (KPU).

"So we leave it to the regulator. What did the league want to do first. Want to play at night, play in the afternoon, play in the rainy season, or in the summer," he explained.

Even so, Hinca acknowledged that the Democrats were ready to discuss with the leaders of other political parties to determine the voting date. It's just that, he stressed, so that the discussions that take place do not have a bargaining agenda so that the Democrats join the governing coalition.

"So if the President calls all the general chairmen of the party, of course all the general chairmen are summoned, it doesn't mean that we immediately make a bargain there. Let us remain loyal to the side of the opposition, you don't have to be under our persuasion. We were in power 10 years, let us also finish 10 years outside," said Hinca.