Gerindra confirms Prabowo’s support for Luthfi-Yasin as Political Party Chairman

Jakarta –

President Subianto game who is also the General Chairman of Gerindra, is campaigning for candidates for Governor-Deputy Governor of Central Java, Ahmad Luthfi–Taj Yasin. DPP Gerindra Daily Chairman Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said there was nothing wrong with this.

“Pak Prabowo, as Chairman of Gerindra and part of the Coalition of Parties supporting Luthfi, emphasized his support for the candidate couple, as the president of the other parties that expressed support for Luthfi-Yasin, ” Dasco told reporters, Sunday (10/11). /2024).

Dasco said that there was no restriction on the President as a state official from campaigning. He said that the President could be campaigning while on campaign leave or campaigning on vacation.

“For those who question Pak Prabowo’s status as president, in principle the President as a state official (Article 58 of Law 20/2023) can campaign in terms of summons, appeals, invitations to one of the pairs elect a candidate in the regional elections. , while on campaign leave Or while the campaign will be held in “holiday (Saturday / Sunday) according to PKPU 13/2024,” said Dasco.

Previously, Prabowo expressed the invitation to elect Ahmad Luthfi and Taj Yasin Maimoen in the 2024 Central Java regional elections considering that both of them had experience and long service in Central Java.

“I believe that the two right figures for Central Java are the brother of the Commissioner General of Police Ahmad Luthfi, someone who has served and served in Central Java for a long time, and also the brother of Taj Yasin Maimoen, my teacher’s son. Maimoen Zubair, who has also worked for a long time in Central Java as deputy governor,” said Prabowo, who delivered this message in his capacity as General Chairman of Gerindra.

Prabowo expressed this invitation in a video uploaded by Candidate for Governor of Central Java number 2 Ahmad Luthfi through his official Instagram account, Saturday (9/11/2024). In the upload, Ahmad Luthfi and Taj Yasin can be seen standing next to Prabowo.

Prabowo believes that the pair of candidates for governor and deputy governor candidate number 2 are a suitable team. According to him, it will be easy for both of them to work together with the central government.

“I believe they will be an ideal team, and working with me in the center, we will be a good team, the team in the area and the team in the center,” he said.

(haf/imk)