PDIP Just Wants To Talk About The Figure Of The Cagub DKI After The Change In Jakarta's Status

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) does not want to talk about the candidate for the governor of DKI Jakarta. PDIP, is still waiting for a change in the status of Jakarta after the nation's capital moved.

"We haven't talked about the figures yet. We are waiting for the amendment of Law 29/2007 (about the DKI Jakarta Government). Later, we will see what kind of post-transfer Jakarta will look like," said Secretary of DPD PDIP DKI Jakarta Gembong Warsono in Jakarta, Friday, April 29. According to Gembong, PDIP do not want to rush to announce the cagub DKI Jakarta as Gerindra has prepared Ahmad Riza Patria. "We are currently taking stock of Jakarta's problems after it is not the nation's capital city," he continued.

Nevertheless, Gembong said, PDIP respects Gerindra's steps in preparing Riza Patria as cagub. Moreover, he said, Riza is a central figure in Gerindra DKI Jakarta.

"(PDIP) welcomes it, because Pak Riza as the chairman of the Gerindra Party DPD, it's good that they are ready to lead Jakarta," he said.

Gembong did not rule out the possibility that PDIP would form a coalition with Gerindra in the 2024 Simultaneous Elections. However, he said, the election issue had not been discussed within the internal banteng party.

"There is no politics that is impossible. Dynamic, so the possibility is open, even though this candidate is the domain of the DPP," he said. Previously, Secretary General of the Gerindra Party Ahmad Muzani, asked cadres to start voicing the chairman of the Jakarta Gerindra DPD, Ahmad Riza Patria as a candidate. governor. Muzani said this discourse while attending a consolidation event as well as breaking the fast with all members of the Gerindra Party branches throughout DKI Jakarta, at the Cempaka Putih Gymnasium, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, April 27.

"We have to prepare the best cadres to be promoted as gubernatorial candidates in the 2024 DKI Jakarta Regional Head Election. And I think that figure belongs to the Deputy Governor, Ahmad Riza Patria," said Muzani in his statement, Thursday, April 28. "We have to win the upcoming 2024 DKI gubernatorial election," he continued. Muzani emphasized that DKI Jakarta is the mascot of the Gerindra Party at the national level. So that in the 2024 election, he said, the Gerindra Party must win again in DKI Jakarta.

"I respectfully ask the branch management, PAC from now on we must start working hard," he said.