Pak Prabowo Joko wi

Presidential

Jakarta, posted: Sat, April 14, 2018 | 05:18 pm

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo converses with Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto, when the latter visited him at the Presidential Palace in November, 2016.(Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf)

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had offered Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto the chance to be his running mate in the 2019 presidential election, but the latter turned down the offer, a Gerindra official has claimed.

“Prabowo immediately declined the offer,” the party’s deputy secretary general, Andre Rosiade, said as quoted by kompas.com.

Prabowo, who lost to Jokowi in 2014 and is now the de facto leader of the opposition camp, was officially nominated Gerindra’s presidential candidate on April 11.