Support Parliamentary Threshold 0 Percent, Said Salahudin: 2024 PKP Momentum Enters Senayan

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Justice and Unity Party (PKP) Said Salahudin, targets his party to qualify for Senayan in the upcoming 2024 Simultaneous Election. Therefore, he supports the imposition of a 0 percent Parliamentary Threshold in the next election. "The 2024 election is our momentum to get back into Senayan, passing our parliamentary threshold target. We are trying to review the need for a review of the parliamentary threshold, which should no longer be appropriate. enforced," Said told VOI, Thursday, October 14. According to him, the 20 percent threshold is a source of conflict problems that do not stop from election to election. Because he said, only a handful of parties dominate the parliament and are stuck in the two big blocks after the 2014 and 2019 elections. "That's because of the parliamentary threshold. That's what bothers us," said Said. Said emphasized that the parliamentary threshold does not need to be lowered to 10 or 15 percent. However, up to 0 percent has been abolished so that political parties are more varied. "It doesn't have to be 10 percent, it has to be 0 percent. Because the constitution has already regulated the mechanism for the second round of presidential elections. Why does there have to be a second round? That's a serious question why the constitution must regulate the second round. the winner of one and two with the most votes will fight in the second round," he explained. "But if the threshold parliament continues to conflict with the conditions of a heterogeneous, plural nation, it cannot have aspirations, it can only be limited to two candidates. Two candidates always occur when there is an incumbent, especially there will be two pairs of candidates," he continued. Therefore, Said said, the Parliamentary Threshold is no longer suitable to be applied in the next general election. "After we saw two elections, it was shown that the parliamentary threshold was the forerunner to the emergence of this national conflict," said Said. Regarding the 2024 presidential election, Said admitted that he would discuss it in the future. However, he said, the PKP is monitoring potential candidates who will compete in the upcoming elections. "Later in time we will convey that we are still monitoring because candidates don't have to appear today. Anies, Ganjar are good, but that doesn't mean the PKP isn't bad. We have good cadres too. We will weigh all of that first, "said Said.