Prabowo Orders Volunteers To Avoid Badmouthing Other Presidential Candidates In The 2024 Presidential Election

JAKARTA - Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reminded his volunteers to avoid a black campaign or vilify other presidential candidates who run in the 2024 presidential election.

Prabowo explained that volunteers must participate in keeping the climate of the 2024 presidential election conducive and peaceful so that they must not be dragged into efforts that divide national unity.

"We have confidence that Indonesia's future will be brilliant. For that, we are united, not divided. We have been pitted against each other for a long time, don't want to be divided. I ask the brothers who support me, who are with me, never do negative things. If you love me, never do negative things to anyone," said Prabowo Subianto in front of the volunteers when inaugurating the 2024 Prabowo Volunteer Winning House in Jakarta, Tuesday, August 15, confiscated by Antara.

Prabowo continued, volunteers must be able to practice family democracy so that other countries can see that the presidential election in Indonesia is peaceful and conducive.

"All parties have children of the nation who are smart. Never badmouth anyone. We really protect it. Let's prove it to other countries, run a family democracy. Pancasila! We compete as a big family," he said.

Prabowo also said that he was friends with two other presidential candidates, namely Ganjar Pranowo who was promoted by the PDI-P and Anies Baswedan, who was promoted by the NasDem Party, PKS, and the Democratic Party coalition.

"Once again, Pak Ganjar is my friend. Anies Baswedan is my friend. We are competing with ideas, fighting over programs, and competing to defend the people," he said.

Prabowo Subianto arrived at the Prabowo Volunteer Winning House 2024 on Jalan Imam Bonjol, Menteng, Jakarta, at around 16.30 WIB. Arriving at the location, Prabowo was greeted by hundreds of volunteers fighting to greet and greet him.

The General Chairperson of Gerindra immediately entered the room and was introduced to a number of organizations, including volunteer organizations supporting President Joko Widodo who in the 2024 presidential election officially supported Prabowo Subianto.

Then, Prabowo continued to deliver his political speech in front of the volunteers. After that, Prabowo continued to sound the gong for eight times as a sign of the inauguration of the Winning House.

Prabowo did not have time to provide information to the media because of the uncontrolled crowd situation. He immediately got into the car and greeted his supporters from the car's open roof. He also continued his journey to the Bidakara Hotel, Jakarta, to speak in a seminar held by the National University.

The inaugurated Prabowo Volunteer Winning House consists of a number of volunteer organizations, including community groups supporting President Jokowi. The winning house was led by Immanuel Eben Ezer as daily chairman.

Immanuel in a press conference session after Prabowo's visit conveyed the possibility that two spokesmans were appointed to represent the Winning House, namely Gerindra Party politician Dedi Mulyadi and Roy Maningkas, who was the founder of the President Jokowi Volunteers Front (Bara JP).

Registration for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates is scheduled to take place from 19 October 2023 to 25 November 2023.

Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu) regulates that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in 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 valid votes nationally in the previous election for 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 support from the Indonesian House of Representatives. Candidate pairs 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.