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The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) is inviting losing candidates in the 2024 presidential election to the ceremony to show Indonesia as "a united and harmonious nation", MPR Speaker and Gerindra Party secretary-general Ahmad Muzani has said.
The campaign period for the Jakarta gubernatorial election kicked off this week, but conspicuously missing from the race is former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, who all surveys say is the most popular figure for the job. The man who held the job in 2017-2022 is being kept out because no political parties chose him for their ticket. And when three political parties that had earlier endorsed his candidacy pulled out at the last minute, it was too late for him to register as an independent.
The former Jakarta governor may be out of the race, the latest LSI survey indicates that he may still wield some influence among his supporters, who are seen to be up for grabs by leading contenders Ridwan and Pramono.
With former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan out of the running for the city’s gubernatorial election, the remaining hopefuls are courting his supporters, who make up a large share of Jakarta’s voters.
Jakarta gubernatorial nominee Ridwan Kamil has been rejected by some potential voters throughout his unofficial campaign in the city, but he and his electoral coalition have downplayed the incidents, saying it was all “part of democracy”.
Indonesia’s citizens, particularly its youth, have shown signs of frustration with the current state of governance, as reflected in various online movements and even last month’s protests against political efforts to circumvent a Constitutional Court ruling.
Anies Baswedan, the former Jakarta governor and candidate in the last recent presidential election, finds himself at a critical crossroads in his political career after failing to secure a nomination for the 2024 Jakarta gubernatorial race. With his ambitions momentarily stymied, speculation is rife about his next move. Anies has said he is considering forming a new political party to maintain his relevance until the 2029 presidential election.
Having failed to get on the ballot in the upcoming regional head elections, unsuccessful presidential candidate Anies Baswedan is all but confirmed to be out of public office for the next five years, prompting experts to believe that the outspoken government critic might soon see his influence wane should president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s incoming administration be received well by the public.
Rumors were circulating on Thursday, the last day of candidate registration for the upcoming regional elections, that the PDI-P would nominate Anies for governor of West Java, but the party instead backed an in-house candidate pair.
