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View all search resultsPresumptive presidential nominee Prabowo Subianto hosted Yenny Wahid, the daughter of the former leader of the country’s largest Muslim group Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), in what could be a search for his running mate after a party widely associated with the NU switched sides to a rival camp.
The surprise decision by the NasDem Party and the National Awakening Party (PKB) to pair former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and PKB leader Muhaimin Iskandar as presidential and vice presidential candidates is expected to have a wider ripple effect on the reconfiguration of the political alliances ahead of next year’s election.
Presumptive presidential candidate and opposition figurehead Anies Baswedan paid a visit to a family member of Muhaimin Iskandar, chair of the country’s largest Muslim party the National Awakening Party (PKB), amid rumors of the party possibly switching sides from Prabowo Subianto's camp.
A recent meeting between opposition presidential candidate Anies Baswedan and former maritime affairs and fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti has led to speculation that he is considering her as his running mate, a notion that has split, yet again, the three-way alliance backing his candidacy.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo hosted NasDem Party chairman Surya Paloh at the State Palace on Monday after having shunned the coalition member for months over his party’s support for opposition presidential candidate Anies Baswedan, in a détente that analysts say could be aimed at influencing a possible runoff election.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s recent Cabinet reshuffle, which saw his loyalists obtain ministerial posts, has had a mixed reception in his big-tent coalition, with the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) backing the decision but the embattled NasDem Party responding with criticism.
The former Jakarta governor, the presumptive nominee of the opposition-leaning alliance KPP, has remained poker-faced about his pick from a shortlist of potential running mates, though the Democrats’ Agus has teased that Anies’ final choice won’t come as ‘a surprise’.
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