Politics · Indonesia · 11 hrs ago
Prabowo Gives Coalition Parties a Week to Prepare Two Vice-President Candidates
President Prabowo Subianto asked his governing coalition to prepare two vice-president candidates at a meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, on Friday.
The candidates are to be submitted to the People’s Consultative Assembly, or MPR, which is due to hold a plenary session on December 2 to select and confirm a vice-president.
Coalition parties have one week to prepare the names.
PAN leader Zulkifli Hasan said his party has no candidate and will leave the choice to Prabowo.
Hasan said the coalition would meet again after Prabowo’s planned visits to Palu and Manila to discuss who should be put forward.
Hasan personally favours a candidate from Gerindra, Prabowo’s party.
President Prabowo Subianto gave parties in his governing coalition one week to prepare two vice-president candidates for submission to the People’s Consultative Assembly.
The instruction was reported by Zulkifli Hasan after a meeting at the Bogor Presidential Palace on Friday, November 13, 2026.
Hasan said his National Mandate Party would leave the choice to Prabowo and had no candidate of its own.
He said coalition leaders would meet again after Prabowo’s planned visits to Palu and Manila.
The Assembly’s plenary session to elect, inaugurate and confirm the vice-president was scheduled for December 2, 2026.
- Who
- President Prabowo Subianto and leaders of parties in his governing coalition. Zulkifli Hasan reported the instruction.
- What
- Prabowo asked coalition parties to prepare two vice-president candidates within one week.
- When
- Friday, November 13, 2026.
- Where
- The meeting was at the Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java, Indonesia.
- Why
- The candidates were to be submitted to the People’s Consultative Assembly ahead of its planned vice-president session.
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Prabowo met leaders of parties in his governing coalition at the Bogor Presidential Palace.
Coalition parties were asked to prepare two vice-president candidates.
Hasan said coalition leaders would be invited to meet again to discuss suitable candidates.
A plenary session of the People’s Consultative Assembly was scheduled to elect, inaugurate and confirm the vice-president.
- Preparation period
- One week
- Candidates requested
- Two vice-president candidates
- Meeting location
- Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java
- Planned Assembly session
- December 2, 2026
- National Mandate Party position
- Hasan said the party had no candidate and left the choice to Prabowo
What people are saying
We were asked to prepare everything within one week.
Whoever will become vice-president is up to him. The National Mandate Party has no candidate running.
If you ask us, perhaps our friends from Gerindra.