20 Percent Presidential Threshold Lawsuit Often Rejected Now Deleted By The Constitutional Court, Golkar: Shocking

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Golkar Party, Sarmuji said the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which removed the 20 percent presidential threshold was very surprising. Because previously, the Constitutional Court had always rejected a lawsuit related to the minimum limit of presidential candidacy.

"The Constitutional Court's decision is very surprising, considering that the Constitutional Court's decision on 27 previous lawsuits always refused," said Sarmuji when contacted, Thursday, January 2.

"In 27 times the decision is that the perspective of the Constitutional Court and the author of the law is always the same, namely the intention of implementing the presidential threshold to support the presidential system can run effectively," he continued.

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".