Emrus: Coalition To 'Deadlock' Determine Prabowo Subianto's Presidential Candidate

GoGo Founder Bangun Negeri Emrus Sihombing. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - GoGo Founder Bangun Negeri Emrus Sihombing estimates that the party that is part of the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) will be deadlocked or hit a dead end in determining Prabowo Subianto's companion in the 2024 Presidential Election.

"The dynamics of their internal discussions are going tight, even to this day there has been no determination of the name," said Dr. Emrus Sihombing in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, October 14.

In fact, he said, the registration time for prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates will start from October 19 to October 25, 2023.

"It should be on the first day of registration that they have registered a candidate pair, but there seems to be no agreement yet," he said.

In the discussion that was hampered, according to him, a new name would appear that would mediate, namely Yusril Ihza Mahendra.

Yusril is promoted by a small party in the Advanced Indonesia Coalition, and will be a solution in the midst of attracting big parties in the coalition.

"The Golkar Party with the power they have will propose a candidate, as will PAN so that Yusril becomes the middle name," he said.

Regarding the name of the eldest son of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo Gibran Ramaning Raka who is also the strong Mayor of Surakarta who is Prabowo Subianto's companion, he sees this possibility to be very small.

Emrus said that Gibran is a PDI-P cadre and of course it is impossible for the PDI-P to be in two axes in this presidential election.

"Jokowi, Kaesang, Gibran, and Bobby will be in one axis, namely supporting Ganjar Pranowo," he said.

The Indonesian KPU has scheduled the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates from 19 to 25 October 2023.

In Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu) it is stated that 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 total 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 the presidential/vice-presidential candidate pair in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. It could also be that the candidate pairs are 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.