Airlangga Welcomes Gibran At Rapimnas Golkar: Welcome, We Are Ready To Win

Golkar Chairman Airlangga Hartarto in his remarks before cadres, management including Gibran Rakabuming Raka/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - Golkar Chairman Airlangga Hartarto welcomed Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the Golkar rapid. Gibran had previously been officially promoted by Golkar to become Prabowo Subianto's vice presidential candidate for the 2024 presidential election contestation.

"We welcome Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the mayor of Surakarta," said Airlangga, Saturday, October 21.

Airlangga in his speech stated that he was ready to win the Prabowo-Gibran pair in the 2024 presidential election.

"So we are all ready to win, apart from that, Mas Gibran will certainly encourage us (to win) Central Java. The plenary meeting was held and Rapimnas Golkar supported Mas Gibran to become vice presidential candidate," said Airlangga.

As previously reported, Golkar Party Chairman Airlangga Hartarto said his party agreed to propose Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a candidate for vice president (cawapres) accompanying Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres). This agreement was taken after the internal party held a meeting on Friday night, October 20.

This was conveyed by Airlangga at the Golkar Party National Leadership Meeting (Rapimnas) which was attended by the General Chair of the Gerindra Party as well as a presidential candidate from the Advanced Indonesia Coalition.

"Last night, sir, we had a meeting for a long time, it was quite warm. But everyone was very concerned about proposing, I first asked, proposing and supporting Mas Gibran Rakabuming Raka for us to pair it with Pak Prabowo as a vice presidential reading," said Airlangga in his speech in front of Prabowo as an invited guest at the Golkar Party DPP, Saturday, October 21.

"Do you agree?" asked Airlangga afterwards.

Agree! The party cadres who attended shouted.