The National Awakening Party (PKB) has offered to form an alliance with the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) by putting forward a candidate to fill the vice presidential position, an offer it said was reasonable due to the PKB’s good performance in the recent legislative election.
“It’s reasonable for us as a party with a high number of votes to offer a vice presidential candidate. We’ve proposed this to the PDI-P,” said the head of the PKB’s central executive board Marwan Jafar on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
He added that with securing 9 percent of the vote based on the quick count results in the legislative election on April 9, the PKB would be a key factor in the coalition.
However, he said his party was not only talking to the PDI-P, with coalition discussions still fluid.
There are three vice presidential candidates in the PKB, who according to Marwan are suitable for the position: dangdut singer Rhoma Irama, former vice president Jusuf Kalla and former Constitutional Court chief justice Mahfud MD.
Besides the three names, Marwan said the party’s chairman, Muhaimin Iskandar, could be another potential vice presidential candidate.
“It’s normal if the chairman is endorsed as a vice presidential candidate because he will be able to directly manage his staff in the House of Representatives,” he said.
PDI-P presidential candidate and Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo visited the PKB’s headquarters in Jakarta on Saturday.
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