PKB Considers Constitutional Court Decision To Remove Presidential Threshold 20 Percent Of New Year's Gifts
JAKARTA - The National Awakening Party (PKB) considers the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) to abolish the presidential and vice presidential nomination threshold (PT) by 20 percent as a gift for the new year of 2025.
However, PKB Deputy Chairman Jazilul Fawaid assessed that this new year's gift would reap various perceptions.
"This is a New Year's gift that will reap various views, polemics and controversy," Jazilul told reporters, Thursday, January 2.
According to him, the article on the abolition of PT is included in the open legal policy. Where should it be, the DPR and the government will rearrange the norms in the revision of the Election Law.
"We will prepare steps as well as wait for the development of the dynamics of the institution that forms the law after the Constitutional Court issues the decision," said the chairman of the PKB faction of the DPR RI.
"Surely it will be in consequence of the revision of the existing Election Law," continued Jazilul.
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It is known that the Constitutional Court removed the threshold for presidential and vice presidential nominations or presidential thresholds. This was decided in the trial of case number 62/PUU-XXII/2024 which was held in the Court Court Session Room, Jakarta, Thursday, January 2.
"Granted the petitioners' petition in its entirety," said the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia, Suhartoyo.
Suhartoyo explained that the norm of Article 222 of Law Number 7/2017 concerning General Elections (State Gazette of the Republic of Indonesia of 2017 Number 182, Additional State Gazette of the Republic of Indonesia Number 6109) contradicts the 1945 Constitution.
The article that was declared contrary was related to the threshold requirements for presidential and vice presidential candidacy by political parties. Article 22 of Law Number 7 of 2017 reads as follows:
"The Candidate Pair is proposed by the Political Party or the Association of Election Participants Political Parties which meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20% (twenty percent) of the number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25% (twenty-five percent) of the nationally valid votes in the previous DPR Member Election".