PDIP Targets The Popularity Of Ganjar Above 95 Percent

Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo is with PDIP (ANTARA) cadres

JAKARTA - PDI-P senior politician Andreas Hugo Pareira targets the level of popularity of presidential candidates (readpres) from the PDI-P Ganjar Pranowo to be above 95 percent.

"The rate of popularity of Ganjar must be above 95 percent," Andreas was quoted as saying by ANTARA, Friday, May 26.

Andreas believes Ganjar's high popularity will lead to a higher level of preference and encourage voters to vote for Ganjar on voting day.

"There is still enough time to increase Ganjar's introduction as a presidential candidate," he said.

Litbang Kompas released the latest survey results related to the electability of prospective presidential candidates in 2024. In the simulation of three names for presidential candidates, Ganjar Pranowo received 40 percent support, higher than Prabowo Subianto and Anies Baswedan.

Senior PDI-P politician Hendrawan Supratikno appreciated the credible survey agency because the survey results could be an inspiration to continue fighting for Ganjar to become president in the 2024 presidential election. However, he did not want to draw conclusions from various survey results.

"Politics is still very dynamic. Gathering, safari of figures, orientation, and narrative of cooperation or coalition, is still ongoing. So, we have to practice patience. Don't expect chickens before dawn," said Hendrawan.

Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, registration of prospective presidential/vice-presidential candidates from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential/vice-presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of the nationally valid votes 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 the DPR RI. In addition, 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.