PPP Officially Supports Ganjar Pranowo As A Presidential Candidate For 2024

JAKARTA - Acting (Plt) Chairperson of PPP Muhamad Mardiono officially announced PDI-P cadres (PDIP) Ganjar Pranowo as a candidate for president (candidate) who will be supported in the upcoming 2024 presidential election (pilpres). The announcement of this presidential candidate took place in Sleman, Yogyakarta, which began at 15.00 WIB as a result of the PPP national leadership meeting (Rapimnas) on 23-25 April 2023. "After going through deliberation and in-depth studies by saying bismillahirromirrohim, PPP decided that Mr. H. Ganjar Pranowo would be a candidate for president of the Indonesian republic in the upcoming 2024 general election," said Acting Chairman of PPP Mardiono. "PPP believes in the culture with Nahdlatul Ulama that he has almost the same vision as PPP," he continued. Ganjar himself is rumored to be present in the people's market held by PPP in Sleman this afternoon. Previously, Mardiono had given a signal that PPP would provide support for Ganjar. In Rapimnas, Tuesday, April 25, yesterday Mardiono had brought up Megawati-Hamzah Haz pairs as president and vice president for the 2002-2004 period. Where according to Mardiono, both of them were PDIP-PPP pairs. At that time, the Mega-Hamzah pair was chosen by the MPR because there had been no direct election.

"In the past, the Chairman of Mr. Hamzah Haz was trusted by the people together with Mrs. Megawati Soekarnoputri as the General Chair of the PDIP together led this nation," said Mardiono at his residence in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Tuesday, April 25.

Apart from Hamzah Haz, Mardiono also brought up another PPP cadre as a companion to PDIP cadres, namely Taj Yasin Maimoen who was the representative of Ganjar Pranowo in Central Java.

"For more than 4 years (the Ganjar-Yasin government), thank God it went well," he said.