Surya Paloh Wants To Meet Megawati

JAKARTA - The general chairman of the NasDem Party, Surya Paloh, gave a code if he wanted to meet the general chairman of the PDIP, Megawati Soekarnoputri. While alluding to the mysticism atmosphere, Paloh hoped that Megawati would also welcome his wish.

Surya Paloh made this statement after meeting the general chairman of the Golkar Party, Airlangga Hartarto at the Golkar Party DPP office, Anggrek Nelly Murni Street, Slipi, West Jakarta, Wednesday, 1 February.

"I think the desire for it is there, it's just a matter of setting it up. We'll give the code first, maybe when Mega has a good time, hopefully, the inner mood is good, the hope for acceptance is the same, so it's clear there is," said Surya Paloh as quoted from his statement yesterday.

According to Surya Paloh, every political party has a common interest in bringing progress to Indonesia, starting from building society to maintaining national stability. This goal, said Paloh, is always the point in every meeting between NasDem and other political parties.

"All of us have an interest in carrying out the mission of how to build public awareness, their maturity in absorbing information, processing information, and maintaining common sense while maintaining national stability to jointly build the progress of this nation," said Paloh.

It is known that the relationship between NasDem and PDIP appeared to be strained after Surya Paloh declared the former Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan as a presidential candidate (Capres) 2024 at the party's Rapimnas on 3 October 2022.

However, PDIP actually visited the NasDem Party at its office on Monday, 22 August 2022. However, the PDIP visit to NasDem was represented by the Chairperson of the PDIP DPP Puan Maharani who was assigned by Megawati to undergo her political safari to political party officials.

The NasDem Party even became the first political party that Puan visited at that time.

The chairman of the DPR said that there was a special reason for her choosing NasDem as the first political party she visited. Namely, because the distance between the NasDem DPP Office, namely the NasDem Tower, is close to the house of PDIP General Chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri, in the Teuku Umar area.

Apart from that, it was stated that her relationship with Surya Paloh was like an uncle with a nephew.