Zulhas said the nation was in turmoil when the presidential candidate lost to the cabinet.

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

President of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Zulkifli Hasan He said there were fraternal ties that were disrupted in society because losing presidential candidates and vice presidents joined the cabinet made up of their rivals.

Although Zulhas did not mention the name explicitly, the presidential candidate in question focused on Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno, who joined the cabinet of Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin, his rival in the 2019 presidential elections.

“National brotherhood upset, after the winner of the Presidential Election is obtained, in the end the losers will join the authorities,” Zulhas said in a video uploaded to his YouTube account, Zulkifli Hasan, on Wednesday (3/24) .

“Presidential and vice-presidential challengers, who are now also ministers, have joined the president-elect,” he continued.

He then called on the challenging candidate to join the cabinet of the president-elect with the term “powerless and powerless.”

According to Zulhas, the consequence of this is that society divides and produces certain forts that are in conflict with each other.

“The political polarization that creates hostility and even hatred, tadpole against camper, bell against cadrun, can continue to turn into thoughts. us against them, “he said.

Prabowo Subianto (left) and Sandiaga Uno (right) were included in the cabinet of Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin, who were his rivals in the 2019 presidential elections (ANTARA FOTO / Akbar Nugroho Gumay / aww).

Zulhas said that the politicization of religion was also carried out brutally, resulting in narrow and merely symbolic Islamism. According to him, this allowed the entry of extreme and radical opinions.

He considered it sad. Zulhas said that the integrity of the nation and the state is in danger because polarization due to politics only causes hatred in society.

“A democratic party, which costs the political and electoral parties a lot of money, produces transactional patterns, harmful and foolish for the people. Meanwhile, the political tension is not well managed,” said the vice president of the MPR.

Based on that, Zulhas proposed a national reconciliation to restore our integrity in the nation and the state.

According to him, national elites must apologize to the public and promise not to use identity politics and SARA to achieve success in power.

(mts / bmw)