There Is A Constitutional Court Ruling, The KPU Makes A Difference In The Treatment Of The Registration Of Political Parties As Candidates For The 2024 General Election

JAKARTA - The General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia has compiled a draft regulation on the General Election Commission (PKPU) concerning the Registration, Verification, and Determination of Political Parties Participating in the General Elections for Members of the DPR and DPRD for the 2024 Election.

One of the things contained in the draft is the difference in registration requirements for political parties as candidates for the 2024 General Election.

"So, there are two treatments in the verification of political parties to be determined as election participants," said Evi during the public test of the PKPU draft at the KPU RI office and virtual, Monday, March 21.

The category distinction referred to by Evi is that political parties that do not meet the parliamentary threshold or parliementary threshold during the 2019 election are required to follow the administrative verification and factual verification stages.

Meanwhile, for political parties that have met the requirements for the parliamentary threshold or parliamentary threshold of 4 percent, they are only required to follow administrative verification.

Evi said that the registration category distinction was designed following the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK). Evi said this was stated in Article 6 of the PKPU draft.

"This concerns what is interpreted in the decision of the Constitutional Court, then the KPU puts it in article 6," said Evi.

Article 6(1) Political Parties participating in the General Election consist of: a. Political parties that have been determined to participate in the election meet the requirements based on the results of administrative verification; b. Political parties that have been determined to participate in the election meet the requirements based on the results of administrative verification and factual verification.

(2) The political parties as referred to in paragraph (1) letter a are political parties that are candidates for election participants that meet the threshold for obtaining votes of at least 4 percent of the nationally valid votes obtained from the results of the last general election.

(3) The political parties as referred to in paragraph (1) letter b include: a. Political parties participating in the election that do not meet the threshold for obtaining at least 4 percent of the votes nationally valid from the results of the Last General Election and have representation at the Provincial DPRD and Regency/Municipal DPRD levels; b. Political parties participating in the general election that do not meet the threshold for obtaining at least 4 (four) percent of the valid votes nationally from the last general election and do not have representation at the Provincial DPRD and Regency/Municipal DPRD levels; danc. A political party determined by a ministerial decision that carries out government affairs in the fields of law and human rights.