Two reasons why the Gatot-Titiek Suharto duet is difficult to materialize

JAKARTA – Duet Gatot Nurmantyo with Siti Hediyati Hariyadi alias Titiek Soeharto sweetening political issues towards 2024 after both of them attended the declaration of the Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (US). However, what is at least widely discussed on social media is not easy in reality.

Executive Director of the Indonesia Political Review (IPR), Ujang Komarudin, considered netizens’ desire to pair a figure as legitimate, and that’s fine. “Because netizens might want other alternative candidates in the 2024 Presidential Election. It’s not dominated by those same names,” said Ujang when contacted. SINDOnews, Saturday (22/8/2020).

(Read: We Cannot Become Political Parties, Gatot-Titiek Soeharto)

However, according to Ujang, the problem of the ‘matchmaking’ of Gatot-Titiek in the 2024 presidential election will be something difficult, and difficult to realize. First, because they did not leave and did not have a “big” party, which could carry both of them. Given the requirements for Nyapres, 20% of the seats are DPR RI.

Second, he continued, the popularity and electability of both as presidential and vice presidential candidates had not yet been seen. The popularity and electability of both of them are unable to compete with several regional heads who are always superior in a number of surveys.

“Our party is difficult too. Because it is not yet a party. And even if it is a party, it does not have the 20% requirement. So the chances are both tough and difficult,” concluded the political analyst from Al Azhar University Indonesia.

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