Puan Maharani Ready To Win Ganjar Pranowo In The 2024 Presidential Election
The atmosphere of the photo together after the declaration of the presidential candidate promoted by the PDI-P at the Batutulis Palace, Bogor, West Java, Friday (21/4/2023). (Between/PDIP)

Chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) DPP as well as Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, stated that she was ready to win the presidential candidate promoted by PDI-P Ganjar Pranowo, as assigned by the Chairperson of the PDI-P Megawati Soekarnoputri.

Another trust and trust from the General Chair that I received. As a party official, I am always ready to accept the assignment of the General Chairman," said Puan in a statement received by Antara in Jakarta, Saturday.

The first woman to serve as Chair of the Indonesian House of Representatives has long been poor across the world of national politics. Internally the party, Puan has carried out several important tasks.

In the party structure, Puan serves as Chair of the DPP for Political Affairs. During the 2014 election, she was given the task of being the Chair of the PDIP Election Winning Body (Bapilu).

Puan also became the Chair of the PDIP Central Java Governor Election (Pilgub) in 2013 and 2018. Puan was at the forefront of winning Ganjar as Governor of Central Java for two terms.

In fact, Ganjar called Puan his combat commander while fighting in the Central Java gubernatorial election. He also praised the former Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture as the best female cadre of the PDIP.

"In particular, thank you to Mbak Puan, who was in a political assignment who had been a combat commander in Central Java for two terms," said Ganjar after being appointed as a presidential candidate from PDIP.

In the past few months, Puan is known to have received a special task from Megawati Soekarnoputri. To warm up the PDIP political engine ahead of the 2024 General Election, she was asked to build political cooperation with other parties to welcome the 2024 General Election.

The communication was also carried out at the same time in Puan's capacity as Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives. At least four party chairmen have been met by Puan in her political safari.

The four general chairmen are the General Chair of the NasDem Party, Surya Paloh, the General Chair of the Gerindra Party Prabowo Subianto, the General Chair of PKB Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin), and the General Chair of the Golkar Party Airlangga Hartarto.

To note, registration for presidential and vice presidential candidates is scheduled for October 19 to November 25, 2023.

Based on Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and 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 valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR.

Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament, so that the 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 for candidate pairs to 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.


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