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PDI-P must not dominate grand alliance, Golkar says
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Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto speaks to reporters on April 2, joined by leaders of other political parties, including Golkar chairman Airlangga Hartarto. (The Jakarta Post/Tempo/Rosseno Aji)
The Golkar Party has warned that if the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) plans to join the proposed grand electoral alliance of parties backing President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s administration, it must not seek to take over the bloc.
Golkar chair Airlangga Hartarto and Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto held a closed-door meeting earlier this week to consolidate plans to have the Golkar-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) and the Gerindra-led Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR) join forces to nominate a single presidential and vice presidential candidate pair for the 2024 election.
"The elements of this grand coalition are the KIB and the KKIR, so it is only natural that Prabowo, as the leader of the KKIR, and I, from Golkar, representing the KIB, continue to communicate to build the solidity of the grand coalition," Airlangga said on Wednesday, a day after the meeting.
The bloc would consist of five of the seven parties currently supporting President Jokowi: Golkar, Gerindra, the United Development Party (PPP), the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the National Awakening Party (PKB).
The absence of the PDI-P, the party to which Jokowi belongs, from the announcement of the initiative in early March raised speculation that the alliance would isolate the ruling party after what appeared to be a clash between Jokowi and his party over Israel’s participation in the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
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Gerindra’s Prabowo is expected to meet with House Speaker Puan Maharani, a PDI-P executive in charge of leading explorations of potential electoral alliances, to discuss the possibility of cooperation.
