Despite The Constitutional Court's Decision, PKS Affirms That Anies Will Not Return To Support Anies
TANGERANG - Secretary General of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Aboe Bakar Alhabsy emphasized that his party will not return to carry Anies Baswedan in the Jakarta Pilkada even though the Constitutional Court (MK) has now changed the threshold for nominating regional heads.Aboe emphasized that PKS had decided to participate in carrying Ridwan Kamil-Suswono in the Jakarta gubernatorial election with the Advanced Indonesia Coalition (KIM) Plus."It's finished, it's finished, the business in politics has been finished. It's through. There's nothing to go back," said Aboe at ICE BSD, Tangerang, Tuesday, August 20.PKS also feels that there is no problem if later the cagubs they carry if Anies manages to get a nomination ticket in the regional elections by carrying PDIP."Yes, what is the problem? We have made a political decision. Really, the political decision is delayed, is that it? How?" said Aboe.On the one hand, Aboe did not deny that Anies' electability was in the highest number of survey results in Jakarta. Likewise, the majority of PKS constituents, in the poll, still support Anies."We'll just look at political education, yes. We don't have to challenge, we don't want to fight back. Anies is our friend, we have made a decision. Let's be fastabiqul khairat who is good. Hopefully who wins, we will trust him later," he explained.The panel of judges at the Constitutional Court granted part of the request for judicial review of Law Number 10 of 2016 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors (UU Pilkada). Where, political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the previous election can nominate candidates for regional heads even though they do not have DPRD seats."Granted the petitioners' petition for part," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo when reading the verdict at the Constitutional Court Building, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, August 20.The Constitutional Court stated that Article 40 paragraph (3) of the Unconstitutional Regional Head Election Law. Where, political parties or coalitions of political parties propose that pairs of candidates use the provisions to obtain at least 25 percent of the accumulation of valid votes as referred to in paragraph (1), this provision only applies to political parties that obtain seats on the representative council of the regional people.Then, the Constitutional Court changed the contents of the article by stating that political parties or coalitions of political parties can register candidates if the province with a population of people contained in the voter list remains more than 6 million to 12 million people, political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election must obtain a valid vote of at least 7.5 percent in the province.If you look at the mapping of candidacy in the Jakarta Pilkada, there are already 12 political parties that will carry the Ridwan Kamil-Suswono pair. Only the PDI Perjuangan (PDIP), political parties, obtained around 14 percent of the votes in the DKI Jakarta DPRD legislative election.
So, with this putsan, PDIP can still carry Jakarta cagubs without having to look for coalition political parties. Likewise with Anies Baswedan, who is still likely to be promoted by political parties to become the Jakarta cagub.