Guessing Prabowo Subianto's Reason For Running Again In The 2024 Presidential Election

JAKARTA - The advancement of Gerindra General Chair Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential election has become a hot topic of discussion lately. Prabowo is called not giving up because he has lost twice as a presidential candidate and once as a vice presidential candidate. So, what is the reason Prabowo intends to run again as a presidential candidate for the third time?

The executive director of the Indonesia Political Review (IPR) Ujang Komaruddin, mentioned four indicators that Prabowo Subianto wanted to run again as a presidential candidate.

First, in the 2024 presidential election there are no incumbents or incumbents. This means, said Ujang, that the presidential candidate market is open and Prabowo could win.

"There is a free fight there. Therefore, anyone can win, including Prabowo. So if you don't advance, you lose," Ujang said in a broadcast quoted by VOI, via the Official iNews channel, Monday, October 11, evening.

Second, Prabowo is again the general chairman of the Gerindra Party. "This means that if Gerindra has no desire to run for president, it will not be the general chairman of Gerindra, it can be the chairman of the Advisory Board or others," he explained.

Third, become the Minister of Defense. According to Ujang, this is important because people think that Prabowo's entry is part of strengthening, for example looking for logistics.

"Because in the government, it is more possible to run for president. And we have a history of SBY from ministering to president," he said.

Fourth, out of curiosity. Because Gerindra has never won Prabowo in the presidential election contestation.

"This is also Gerindra's pride because it has never won its presidential candidate," said Ujang.

Meanwhile, Secretary General of the Gerindra Party Ahmad Muzani, explained about the advancement of General Chair Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential election. According to him, the authority to determine the presidential and vice presidential candidates from Gerindra rests with Prabowo.

"The AD/ART gave him authority as Chairman of the Advisory Council. However, in the tradition of making important decisions, Prabowo always invites the DPD, DPC and members of the DPR/DPRD to jointly determine the presidential and vice presidential candidates," Muzani said in a broadcast quoted by VOI, via the Official iNews channel, Monday, October 11, evening.

Regarding the approval to run for the 2024 presidential election, said Muzani, Prabowo has not yet stated his position. Because, the forum has not been done.

"There was an Extraordinary Congress held in August 2019, which asked him to become president in 2024. When at KLB Pak Prabowo asked Gerindra cadres not to rush because he was the Minister of Defense who was concerned with helping President Jokowi in the defense sector," he explained.

"We have passed 2019, 2020 is past, now we are running 2021. But the process for that continues, all DPD, DPC, branches, all cadres continue to ask Prabowo to come forward in 2024," he added.

Muzani claimed that Prabowo's electability in the survey was quite good. Even in the last survey it is still number one.

"Development must continue, unity must be continued, diversity must be maintained, that is what causes all cadres to ask him to come forward," said Muzani.

The question of the Gerindra Party's declining survey, said Muzani, was only from research. However, the results of vote acquisition from election to election starting from the 2009 election, the 2014 election to the 2019 Gerindra election always experienced an increase.

"But the problem is, Gerindra seats are only 78, for him to run as a presidential candidate it must be more. This means that in order for him to run as a presidential candidate, he must form a coalition with other parties. in 2024," he said.

The chairman of the Gerindra faction of the DPR RI is also confident that it will be easy for his party to build communication and coalitions with other political parties. Because according to him, Gerindra has no enemies and is on good terms with all parties.

"We feel we have no problem with any political party, no problem with any political party. In fact, we don't even have enemies with any political party, so to build communication like this there is no problem," explained Muzani.

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