Dream - Vice Presidential candidate (cawapres) number 3 Mahfud MD revealed the reason for refusing to answer Gibran Rakabuming Raka's question 2 regarding greenflation or green inflation in the fourth debate of the 2024 Presidential Election. According to Mahfud, Gibran's question is trivial and gimmicky. The Minister of Politics, Law, and Security explained that in the academic world, questions should start from the background. "

"Why is it trivial? Because when someone asks something, academics must have a background first. There is an incident, then asked 'What is your opinion, sir?'," said Mahfud in the "Tabrak Prof" event in Semarang, Central Java, on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Mahfud assessed that Gibran did not do that. According to him, the Mayor of Solo only asks without any background of the problem."

Mahfud suspects that the questions and gimmicks by Gibran at that time had been planned by the Prabowo-Gibran success team (timses) to embarrass him. "It is the assumption of his coach that, in my opinion, considers Gibran stupid, and thinks that I am also stupid, thinking that he can fool me like that," said Mahfud.

"They wanted to embarrass me, so I embarrassed them back," he added. Previously, the second vice presidential debate heated up when vice presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming threw a question at vice presidential candidate 3 Mahfud MD."

In that session, Gibran asked the couple of Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo about greenflation. Although initially trying to answer Gibran's question, Mahfud MD was reluctant to further answer Gibran's question about how to overcome greenflation.

Gibran conveyed this after making a gimmick by bending down as if looking for Mahfud MD's answer. "I'm looking for Professor Mahfud's answer, I've been searching for it but I can't find it. I asked about green inflation, but instead he explained green economy," Gibran replied after bowing down as if searching for something.

Hearing Gibran's response and reaction, Mahfud MD decided unwilling to provide further explanation regarding the question. Mahfud even counterattacked by considering the question `trivial` so it doesn't need to be answered.

"I also want to find the answer, it's nonsense. It's completely made up. Associating it with something that doesn't exist," said Mahfud Md. "If it's academically speaking, it's easy to answer questions like that, it's trivial. Therefore, in my opinion, it's not worth answering, and that's why I return it to the moderator, it's not worth answering. There is no answer to this, I return it. It's pointless to answer," he added.