Watching Parties Lobbying

Visiting each other, having discussions, and then making statements related to electoral alliances in the 2024 presidential election (Pilpres). This is the typical activity of party elites and politicians these days.

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

General Chair of the Gerindra Party Prabowo Subianto with General Chair of the National Awakening Party Muhaimin Iskandar at Prabowo's residence on Jalan Kertanegara IV, Jakarta, Friday (28/4/2023).

Political lobbying is indeed necessary for parties and political elites because only by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) can nominate a candidate for the 2024 presidential election on its own, as it holds 22.26 percent of the seats in the House of Representatives (DPR). Other parties must form an electoral alliance because only a party or a group of parties that has won at least 20 percent of DPR seats or 25 percent of valid votes in the previous election is eligible to nominate a presidential candidate.

After the PDI-P announced Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo as its presidential candidate (capres), the lobbying intensified, as other political parties could lose momentum if they joined or built an alliance late.