Puan's Message Regarding The 2024 Election: Sovereignty Is In The Hands Of The People

Chairman of the House of Representatives and Chairperson of the PDIP DPP Puan Maharani (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The House of Representatives (DPR) held a plenary meeting to open the opening of the second trial period today, Tuesday, October 31. In his speech, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, mentioned the stages of the 2024 General Election which are currently underway. Puan reminded that elections are a constitutional mandate. Where the 1945 Constitution mandates that sovereignty is in the hands of the people and is carried out according to law. "People's sovereignty is held through branches of state power. Where the DPR RI as a legislative institution, the president as an executive institution, the Attorney General's Office and the constitutional court as a judicial institution can control each other and there is a balance of power between these institutions," said Puan at the DPR RI building, Tuesday, October 31.

In a democratic institution, continued Puan, power is always limited and unlimited. Puan said, the constitution has provided guarantees to perfect democracy through the implementation of elections periodically, and can hold the principles of checking and balances of state power.

"The election is a tool in perfecting the implementation of democracy through elections, the people can assess, evaluate, update or not continue the mandate to the presidents of the Republic of Indonesia, the DPR RI and the DPD RI," he explained.

According to the chairman of the PDIP DPP, the quality of the election will determine the quality of democracy and will then determine the quality of the implementation of people's sovereignty in managing the country and nation.

"It is necessary to carry out quality elections, a political party participating in the election is needed which is increasingly advanced and articulates the interests of the people and always upholds its commitment to safeguarding and supervising the nation's ideology and strengthening national unity," said Puan.