Jakarta, IO – Gerindra Party central executive committee chairman Sufmi Dasco Ahmad affirmed the party’s chairman Prabowo Subianto will not resign from the position of defense minister after having been elected president, per CNN Indonesia, Fri (26/4).
This means that Prabowo will stay on until President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo finished his second term in office. Dasco said that this decision would also make it easier for Prabowo to coordinate with fellow ministers in different fields.
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The Indonesian Electoral Commission (KPU) has formally declared Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as president- and vice president-elect on Wednesday (24/4) after the Constitutional Court (MK) rejected the losing candidates’ – Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD — legal challenge to dispute the election result. (un)