Suara.com – Executive Director of Charta Politika Yunarto Wijaya predicts that President Jokowi's fate will be like that of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
This statement was made by Yunarto Wijaya when campaigning for candidate pair 03 Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD in an event whose video circulated on TikTok.
According to Yunarto Wijaya, there were differences between Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD when PDIP nominated him as president.
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“As far as I know, Ganjar has never kissed Ms. Mega's hand, like Jokowi, who wanted to become a presidential candidate, always kissed Ms. Mega's hand. This is a fact,” he said.
In fact, Yunarto said, if you want to judge objectively, look at when someone was governor like Ganjar Pranowo.
Yunarto Wijaya said that Ganjar was not a party official, as seen from his policies when he was Governor of Central Java.
“Is there anyone who can prove that just one policy, Ganjar Pranowo, when he was in power was promoted by a certain party, he made a policy that showed he was only a party official and not a people's official? No one can explain,” said Yunarto.
He then said that a group of people who felt that the real president would still be Jokowi when Prabowo was in power were stupid.
“It's the same as the stupidity of a group of people voting who feel that when Prabowo was in power the real president was Jokowi. That's not the story, ladies and gentlemen,” he said.
The president, said Yunarto, when elected will be very powerful because he holds power as head of government and head of state.
He then gave an example of what is currently happening in the Philippines. According to him, there is a group of Rodrigo Duterte supporters who feel that Duterte is the real president even though Bongbong Marcos and his deputy are Sara Duterte as President.
“What happened? His government had not been in power for two years, then the Duterte family asked Bongbong Marcos to step down. Because then Bongbong Marcos did not comply with the political agreement made between the two families,” said Yunarto.
Yunarto then asked the audience whether they wanted this incident in the Philippines to happen in Indonesia.
“Do we want to repeat what happened in the Philippines? Do we believe that an elected president can just be controlled by people who feel they have already made him. Do you believe it, ladies and gentlemen?” asked Yunarto to which the audience answered no.
For this reason, Yunarto asked the audience to vote for candidate pair 03 Ganjar-Mahfud in the 2024 presidential election to restore the direction of reform and win back democracy in Indonesia.