THE POTENTIAL PKS joining the Prabowo-Gibran coalition was rejected by the Gelora Party. Responding to this, PAN as the party in the coalition supporting Prabowo-Gibran said that PKS had been trained to be outside the government.
“That was handed over to Pak Prabowo, but PKS has also been trained outside (the government), right? “For PKS inside and outside, it’s the same,” said PAN Vice President Yandri Susanto to journalists, Monday (29/4).
In fact, Yandri explained that there was no problem if PKS would join KIM. However, Yandri might not speculate whether Prabowo had invited PKS to join his government in the future.
“For PAN, anyone who is invited by a coalition outside the Advanced Indonesia Coalition is handed over to Pak Prabowo as the elected president,” he said.
“I have repeatedly said that for PAN there is no problem if a new party wants to join Pak Prabowo as a strengthening in building the nation in the future,” added Yandri.
Yandri reminded that in a healthy democracy there needs to be control over the new government.
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Yandri emphasized that parties outside the government are also necessary and as respectable as those within the government.
“Well, I don’t know whether PKS was invited or not, PAN still hasn’t received the information. “Pak Prabowo has the right to invite or not to invite, and we cannot intervene in decisions outside of PAN,” he said.
Previously, the Indonesian People’s Wave Party (Gelora) rejected the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) from joining the government of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
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The reason is that PKS is considered to have created a narrative attacking Prabowo-Gibran during the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) campaign.
“As far as I remember, during the campaign process, there were many very ideological narratives within the PKS that attacked the figure of Prabowo-Gibran,” said the Secretary General (Sekjen) of the Indonesian Gelora Party, Mahfuz Sidik, in a written statement, Sunday (28/4). (Z-8)
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