Pilpres 2014, Partai Demokrat Hanya Punya Dua Opsi
Yudhoyono: Democratic Party Faces Two Options to Indonesian Presidential Election
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Partai Demokrat memiliki dua opsi koalisi untuk menghadapi Pemilihan Presiden pada 9 Juli mendatang.
Ketua Umum Partai Demokrat, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) mengatakan, ada dua opsi koalisi partai berlambang mercy biru untuk menghadapi Pilpres 9 Juli mendatang. Adapun, pilihan dan opsi itu masih terus dibicarakan.
"Pertama, Partai Demokrat bisa saja mendukung salah satu capres yang ada," kata SBY saat memberikan sambutan dalam pembukaan Rapimnas Partai Demokrat di Jakarta, Ahad (18/5).
Menurut dia, kalau cocok dan bisa berkoalisi bisa saja Demokrat memasang calon presiden dan calon wakil presiden sendiri meskipun peluang untuk mewujudkan hal tersebut kecil.
"Opsi yang lain, yaitu kita tak bergabung dengan kubu mana pun, tapi pada 9 Juli kita akan bersikap dan memahami platform yang akan mereka lakukan," ujar SBY.
Demokrat, lanjutnya, dapat menyalurkan suaranya pada capres tertentu."Khusus ini agar partai kita bisa menentukan sikap tepat dan benar setelah pembukaan akan saya perjelas situasi dan masalah yang kita hadapi," kata dia.
Selain itu, ia mengatakan, pihaknya juga akan mendengarkan pandangan pimpinan Partai Demokrat di daerah untuk membulatkan posisi untuk dua hari mendatang.
"Kita matangkan dan bulatkan terkait posisi partai untuk 2 hari mendatang," ujar dia.
Jakarta (B2B) - Democratic Party (DP) of Indonesia had two options of coalition in the face of the upcoming July 9 presidential election.
"We are still discussing the two options. The first is that the PD can opt to support one of the existing presidential candidates," DP General Chairman, Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono said when addressing the opening of the PD national leadership meeting here on Sunday.
He said that if it was agreed, a coalition could be formed and the PD would name its own presidential and vice presidential candidates, yet this possibility was small.
"The other option is that we do not join alliance but in the July 9 presidential elections we will adopt the attitude of seeing their platform," Yudhoyono said.
The Democratic Party can just channel its aspirations for a certain presidential candidate.
"In this case, our party should be able to take correct attitude. After the opening, I will make clear the situations we are facing," he said.
He said that his side would also hear the aspirations of PDs provincial branches to consolidate its position in the coming two days.
"We will fully consider and strengthen position in the coming two days," Yudhoyono added.
These options appeared because the DP had limitations in deciding its own steps, when the PD faced a different situation from that during the 2004 and 2009 elections, Yudhoyono asserted.
"Why do we have constraints in making a choice compared with what we had in the 2004 and 2009 presidential elections? The first thing is that the votes we secured (in the legislative elections) were only 10 percent," Yudhoyono said when addressing the PD National Working Meeting here on Sunday.
The second is that the electability of the participants of the Democratic Partys presidential candidate convention is lower than those of other parties presidential and vice presidential candidates, he said.
"The absence of PDs presidential candidates with high electability to compete with other top candidates limits PDs options to name a presidential candidate," he said.
