Gerindra Secretary -General regarding the Governor was selected by the center: we commit democracy

Jakarta -Secretary of General of the new Gerindra Party, Sugiono, responded to the case of the proposal of the regional head at the governor’s level was directly elected by the central government. Sugiono said the Gerindra party still holds on to the principles of democracy. “We have committed democracy. And in my opinion, we must perform democracy based on the values we have. So we perform democracy with the situation and atmosphere and conditions and values and values we have. That’s what we do,” Sugiono said when he met the office of Kemenkum, Kuningan, South Jakarta (1/8/2025). Sugiono also responded to the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the separation of elections at regional and national level. He said the Gerindra party regretted the decision and did not agree. Browse to continue with the content “We are actually regret, not in accordance with what … because technically there will be an empty period in the DPR. So I think it’s something we don’t agree,” he said. As for the proposal of the governor, the president who was directly elected by the president originated from the PKB chairman, Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin. At the time, Cak Imin responded to the idea of the local main election. Cak Imin said there are two things that have become the conclusion of PKB in the direct assessment of regional main elections. One of them is that the governor was selected by the central government. “Well, since the condition PKB concluded that there must be an effective way between the will of the people and the will of the central government. Now, because this direct election is great, we actually want to be two patterns,” Cak Imin said. “The first pattern of the governor as representative of the central government was appointed by the central government. The governor, but the regent was because he was not a representative of the central government, the regent was preferred by the people by the DPRD,” he added. (Jesus/Isa)