REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Chairman of Crescent and Star Party (PBB) Yusril Ihza Mahendra called on his cadres to respect the party's decision to support Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin pair in presidential election 2019. He asserted the party remains solid despite differences of opinion of its cadres.

"No Makkah pole exist in PBB," he stated.

According to Yusril, the number of his cadres supporting Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno pair was small. He noticed that only 80 of 15 thousand cadres lent their support to the opposition camp.

PBB has decided at its recent plenary meeting to support Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin pair in the April 17 presidential elections. The decision is not the personal decision of the party chairman but is the decision of the vast majority of participants of the plenary meeting held on January 19, Yusril said in a written message sent to Antara.

The plenary meeting assigned Yusril, chief of the party law-making body MS Kaban and chief of the party's court Yasin Ardi to the wording of the political support. PBB Vice Chairman Eddy Wahyudin in the capacity as chairman of the plenary meeting later signed the decision.

"The decision-making process ran democratically in accordance with the party's mechanism as set forth in its articles of association," he said.

Although the party has decided to support Jokowi-Ma'ruf pair, the party continues to respect the decision of other party cadres or members to have different choice, he said. The PBB central executive board also called on all party functionaries, members and sympathizers to respect each other although they are at odds over presidential candidates.

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