Presidential Threshold Zero Percent, PKB: There Is No Urgency To Force Issue Perppu

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the PKB, Jazilul Fawaid, emphasized that there is no urgent need to force President Joko Widodo to issue a Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) to abolish the presidential threshold rule.

This follows the push for the presidential threshold to be changed to zero percent. Since the Election Law cannot be revised, the President is proposed to issue a Perppu.

"There is no compelling urgency, (the presidential threshold) does not meet the requirements for the issuance of the Perppu," Jazilul told reporters, Friday, December 17. The Deputy Chairman of the MPR RI explained that the issuance of a Perppu could not be carried out without clear reasons. Moreover, the discourse of removing the presidential threshold is only the proposal of a certain elite. "This PT issue is only at the discourse level of the political elite," said Jazilul.

According to him, the presidential threshold of zero percent is not the request of the majority of Indonesians. The people, he said, are now more hopeful that the economy will recover soon.

"It is the hope of the community that the economic difficulties impacted by COVID-19 can quickly recover and grow again," concluded Jazilul.

It is known that a number of public figures are currently filing a judicial review lawsuit against the Election Law at the Constitutional Court. Where, in the Election Law, a presidential threshold is set for 20 percent of political party seats in the DPR RI or 25 percent of the vote in the last election.

The discourse on the issuance of this Perppu emerged after the Indonesian House of Representatives did not include the revision of Law 7/2017 concerning General Elections in the priority national legislation program (Prolegnas) in 2021.

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