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Prabowo to decide on his 2024 candidacy in August
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In this file photo dated Feb. 6, 2020, Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto delivers a speech during the party's 12th anniversary at the Gerindra Central Executive Board (DPP) office in South Jakarta. (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
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erindra Party chairman and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is set to decide next month whether he will run again in the 2024 presidential election that will set the stage for his fourth presidential bid.
Prabowo will answer growing demand for his candidacy from party members during their national leadership meeting on Aug. 13 in Bogor, West Java, Gerindra central executive board head Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said.
The party planned to hold its national leadership meeting this Saturday, but it was rescheduled after it decided to put another item on the agenda of the meeting: to declare forming an alliance with the National Awakening Party (PKB).
“[We reached] an agreement during a meeting on Tuesday with the PKB. Therefore, the national leadership meeting that will announce the presidential nomination and [the establishment of the] coalition will be carried out on Aug. 13,” Dasco told reporters on Wednesday.
Despite having the authority to pick who the party will nominate, Prabowo preferred a unanimous decision-making process so that he could see whether members jointly agreed to support him in the election, Gerindra secretary-general Ahmad Muzani said on Monday.
“The most important [item on the agenda] in the meeting will be to hear Prabowo’s direct answer to the request,” Ahmad said. "All party officials from district, regional and central levels, and all members want, hope and ask for Prabowo's willingness to run in the 2024 presidential election."
Over the past few months, some central executive board senior members and heads of local branches have staged public declarations endorsing the retired Army general to run again in several regions — including West Sumatra, where Prabowo won by a significant margin against President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2014 and 2019.
