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Prabowo’s running mate to come from Golkar-led coalition, Golkar politician claims
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Officials prepare ballot boxes and other voting materials in Jakarta ahead of the 2019 presidential and legislative elections. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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he running mate of presumptive Gerindra Party presidential nominee Prabowo Subianto will hail not from Gerindra’s electoral alliance but from the Golkar Party-led United Indonesia Coalition (KIB), a Golkar politician has claimed, in what would be a show of unity between the two pro-government electoral groupings.
The KIB consists of Golkar, the alliance’s de facto leader; the National Mandate Party (PAN); and the United Development Party (PPP).
Gerindra’s electoral alliance, meanwhile, known as the Great Indonesia Awakening Coalition (KKIR), consists of it and the National Awakening Party (PKB).
“The presidential [candidate of the ‘grand coalition’ of pro-government parties] will hail from the KKIR alliance, while the vice presidential [candidate] will hail from the KIB,” Golkar election campaign team head Nusron Wahid said on Wednesday, as quoted by Kompas.com.
Nusron’s statement came just hours after Golkar chair Airlangga Hartarto met with his National Awakening Party (PKB) counterpart Muhaimin Iskandar at the Golkar party’s headquarters in West Jakarta on Wednesday morning to discuss plans for creating the so-called grand coalition of pro-government parties. Both figures have reportedly been eyeing the vice presidential candidacy for themselves.
Despite their respective electoral alliances, both Airlangga and Muhaimin have previously proclaimed that they are the “core team” seeking to keep the dream of a grand alliance alive among pro-government parties.
Complications recently emerged in the KIB coalition following the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) nomination of its own politician Ganjar Pranowo for the presidency in 2024, which caused the PPP to switch allegiances.
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