Many Supporters Claims, PDIP Doesn't Question Jokowi Volunteers Support Prabowo's Presidential Candidate

JAKARTA - Secretary General (Secretary General) of the PDI-P (PDIP) Hasto Kristiyanto said that his party had no problem with the existence of Pro Jokowi (Projo) volunteers in South Sulawesi who declared to support Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election. "No, papa (Projo in South Sulawesi declared Prabowo as a presidential candidate), there are also quite a lot of volunteers who support Pak Ganjar Pranowo," Hasto told reporters after attending the Kick Off Workshop of the 2024 Election Covering at the Press Council Hall, quoted by ANTARA, Monday 19 June. Furthermore, he conveyed that the structure of volunteer institutions is not like a political party so that their support is an expression of aspiration, not an ideology. "Yes, if volunteers are not like political parties. Their names are volunteers, they then convey expressions because this is not an organized expression in an ideology, one platform so it is relatively more fluid," said Hasto. Previously, Projo Sulawesi Selatan in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Sunday (18/6) declared support for Prabowo to run as a presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election. The support was conveyed by the Chairman of Projo Sulsel Herwin Niniala during the Projo Regional Conference (Konferda) Projo in Makassar City. Based on the schedule that has been set by the General Election Commission (KPU) RI, registration of prospective presidential and vice president candidates is scheduled to start on October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the elections that meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the nationally valid votes in the previous election of members of the DPR. Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. In addition, pairs of candidates can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.