Golkar Konsisten di Koalisi Merah-Putih, Tidak Merapat ke Jokowi-JK
Golkar Party Consistent to Remain in Coalition of Parties Support Prabowo-Hatta
Reporter : Rizki Saleh
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Partai Golkar akan konsisten berada di Koalisi Merah-Putih dan tidak akan merapat ke koalisi partai pengusung pasangan Joko Widodo dan Jusuf Kalla. Sebelumnya, beberapa politisi Partai Golkar memberikan isyarat bahwa Partai Golkar akan merapat ke kubu Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla.
"Sikap Partai Golkar tegas, akan tetap konsisten berada di Koalisi Merah-Putih pengusung pasangan Prabowo dan Hatta Rajasa," kata Wakil Sekretaris Jenderal Partai Golkar Tantowi Yahya di Gedung MPR/DPR/DPD RI, Jakarta, Selasa (15/7).
Tantowi Yahya mengatakan hal itu menanggapi pertanyaan pers yang menanyakan sejumlah pihak meragukan konsistensi Partai Golkar bergabung dalam Koalisi Merah Putih pendukung pasangan Prabowo dan Hatta Rajasa.
Koalisi Merah Putih yang terdiri dari Partai Gerindra, Partai Golkar, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP), Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN), dan Partai Demokrat (PD), telah mendeklarasikan sebagai koalisi permanen di Tugu Proklamasi, Jakarta, Senin (14/7).
Pers menanyakan hal itu didasarkan atas pernyataan sejumlah politisi yang memperkirakan Partai Golkar akan mengalihkan dukungan jika pasangan Joko Widodo dan Jusuf Kalla yang memenangkan Pemilu Presiden 2014.
Tantowi segera menepis analisa tersebut dengan mengatakan, Partai Golkar akan konsisten berada di Koalisi Merah Putih yang mendukung pasangan Prabowo dan Hatta Rajasa.
Wakil Ketua Komisi I DPR RI ini menegaskan, kabar tersebut diungkapkan oleh anggota partai di luar struktur kepengurusan. "Itu disuarakan oleh orang-orang yang berada di luar kepengurusan," kata Tantowi.
Jakarta (B2B) - Golkar will be consistent with its decision to be in the Red-White coalition supporting the Prabowo-Hatta, will never reverse its decision to participate in the coalition of parties supporting the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla ticket.
"The Golkar Partys stance is firm. It will be consistent with its decision to be in the Red-White coalition supporting the Prabowo-Hatta ticket," the Secretary General of Golkar Party, Tantowi Yahya said at the parliament building here on Tuesday.
Tantowi Yahya made the statement in response to a question regarding doubts over the partys consistency, with regard to its decision to join the Red and White coalition.
The Red and White coalition consists of seven parties, including the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), which is Prabowos party; the National Mandate Party (PAN), which is the party of Prabowos running mate, Hatta Rajasa; the Golkar Party, the Democrat Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; the United Development Party (PPP); the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the Moon and Star Party (PBB).
On Monday, these parties declared they would be a permanent coalition.
Several politicians, however, predicted that Golkar Party would later shift its support to the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla pair, if the ticket is later declared the winner of the presidential election on July 9.
Tantowi denied the suggestion, saying that Golkar Party, which was the runner up in the legislative election on April 9, will be consistent with its decision to stay in the Red and White coalition supporting the Prabowo-Hatta pair.
The current deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Commission I said that the idea was only conveyed by members outside the partys board membership.
Several Golkar Party politicians have signaled that the party could possibly move to support the Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla pair.
