After The Declaration, Anies-Cak Imin Will Be The First Applicants For The 2024 Presidential Election To The KPU

Candidates for Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan and Vice Presidential Candidate Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) (@aniesbaswedan)

TUBAN - Deputy Secretary of the PKB Shura Council Maman Imanul Haq targets the duet of Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar to be the presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs who register first in the General Election Commission (KPU). "We will register first with the KPU, because we are sure that these are two young, two of them brave. They get prayers and guidance from the elders," said Maman, quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, September 9. Maman explained, no party suspects who is paired with whom, including in terms of the Anies-Muhaimin pair. "It turns out that there is the first pair who declares his name Anies-Muhaimin. Now if Anies-Muhaimin has been deflated like that, we don't have to wait long for the KPU opening," he asserted. However, he said, being the first registrant at the KPU, it does not mean that when the KPU opens registration on the first day, the Anies-Muhaimin pair immediately registers. "Usually, we ask what kind of kiai, yes to win," he said. Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar's association was declared as a presidential-cawapres candidate in Surabaya, last Saturday. The declaration was witnessed directly by NasDem Party Chairperson Surya Paloh, NasDem Party elite and PKB elite. Based on the schedule set by the General Election Commission (KPU) RI, registration of 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. It is also possible that 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.