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View all search resultsPrabowo-Hatta register candidacy at KPU
Heavy contender: Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto speaks after registering his presidential candidacy at the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Tuesday
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Heavy contender: Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto speaks after registering his presidential candidacy at the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Tuesday. (JP/Hasyim Widhiarto) (KPU) on Tuesday. (JP/Hasyim Widhiarto)
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span class="caption">Heavy contender: Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto speaks after registering his presidential candidacy at the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Tuesday. (JP/Hasyim Widhiarto)
Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto registered his presidential candidacy with the General Elections Commission (KPU) in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, after weeks of intensive lobbying.
Accompanied by supporters, Prabowo and his running mate Hatta Rajasa, who is chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN), arrived at the KPU headquarters at 2 p.m.
Prabowo-Hatta secured endorsement from the Gerindra Party, PAN, the Golkar Party, the United Development Party (PPP), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKB) and the Crescent Star Party (PBB).
'I hope more [parties] will join,' Prabowo said after registering, responding to questions about his meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, chairman of the Democratic Party, on Monday evening.
Prabowo confirmed that former Constitutional Court chief justice Mahfud MD would be his election campaign chief.
Separately, Gerindra deputy chairman Fadli Zon said there was a possibility that the Democrats, which had recently decided to sit out the presidential election, might support Prabowo.
'Last night, he [Yudhoyono] said the Dems would decide [which presidential candidate it will endorse] later, but that he personally supported Prabowo-Hatta,' he said.
On Monday, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla, registered their candidacy with the KPU. The pair is backed by a coalition of three parties: the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the National Awakening Party (PKB), and the NasDem Party.
To be able to nominate a presidential ticket, a party or coalition of parties must have 25 percent of the popular vote or 20 percent of the seats at the House of Representatives.
KPU commissioner Hadar Nafis Gumay said candidates who had registered with the KPU could not add or retract support from any political party.
'A [party's] endorsement is final once submitted to the KPU,' he said.
