The meeting of the National Mandate Party (PAN) held at its headquarters last night (May 23) failed to reach an agreement on whether the Party will endorse Ganjar Pranowo or Prabowo Subianto in the next year’s presidential election. However, some of the Party’s leaders came up with the idea of nominating a new presidential-vice presidential pairing.

Litbang Kompas, the research division of Kompas, the largest newspaper in the country, has just released its latest electability survey of presidential candidates who may be competing in the next year’s presidential election. They found that Ganjar Pranowo, a presidential candidate from the ruling party PDIP, was still the frontrunner in a three-horse race, but Prabowo has narrowed the gap significantly.

Litbang Kompas, the research division of Kompas, the largest newspaper in the country, has just released its latest survey on electability of political parties competing in next year’s legislative election. It found improvements for PDIP, Gerindra, PAN, and PPP, while Golkar, Democratic Party, NasDem, PKS, and PKB were on the decline. 

Today, on May 23, National Mandate Party (PAN), a member of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s ruling coalition, will hold an internal meeting at its headquarters in South Jakarta. The Party will reportedly announce its endorsement for a presidential candidate in 2024 race. Interestingly, the chairman of PAN Zulkifli Hasan, who is also the minister of trade, has just met with President Jokowi at the State Palace yesterday (May 22).

The Chairman of Gerindra Party Prabowo Subianto, who is also the minister of defense, finally met with former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), who is the supreme leader of Democratic Party. The meeting is worth highlighting in light of 2024 race, and many people are wondering whether the meeting went well or not.

Anies Baswedan made a criticism against President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, including the President’s infrastructure development, during his speech at the anniversary event of the opposition party PKS. This is, perhaps, the first time for Anies to put out a strong narrative against the President ahead of 2024 race. Let’s talk a bit about the matter.

Mayor of Solo Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who is also the eldest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, has been summoned to the ruling party PDIP’s headquarters in Menteng, Central Jakarta today (May 22), following his recent meeting with Prabowo Subianto, the chairman of Gerindra Party. People start to wonder whether Gibran will get a sanction from PDIP.

Litbang Kompas, the research division of Kompas, the largest newspaper in the country, has just released its latest survey. It found approval rating of President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo at 70.1%, improved from 69.3% in January, but still below its peak (73.9%) in January 2022. In contrast, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had an approval rating of around 50% only one year before 2014 election.

Surya Paloh, chairman of NasDem Party, initially asked everybody, including his party executives, to stay calm, not provoked by the thinking of ‘political intervention’ in the naming of Johnny G Plate as corruption suspect. Willy Aditya, executive of NasDem, however, only hours later ‘provoked’ students at Muhammadyah University Jakarta about the issue.

The Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, a presidential candidate from the ruling party PDIP, visited Manado (North Sulawesi) on Thursday (May 18). He was accompanied by the Grand Imam of Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque Nasaruddin Umar, who has lately been mentioned as his potential running mate. Meanwhile, Prabowo Subianto, a presidential candidate from Gerindra Party, attended another event at the Istiqlal Mosque yesterday. A day earlier, Prabowo met with the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Erick Thohir, who is widely mentioned as his potential running mate.