PT 20 Percent Considered Amputation Of Leader Stock, DPD RI: Hope The People's Desire Zero Percent Is Heard By MK

JAKARTA - Member of the DPD RI Jakarta, Fahira Idris, highlighted the number of submissions for judicial review of the 20 percent presidential nomination threshold stipulated by Law 7/2017 to the Constitutional Court (MK).

Fahira said this in response to the people's desire for the 2024 Presidential/Vice Presidential Election (Pilpres) to be held more fairly, with dignity and quality.

According to him, the people want more of the nation's best sons and daughters to compete to become the nation's leaders in the 2024 presidential election.

"Indonesia has a large stock of quality leaders, but the 20 percent threshold has been amputated," said Fahira, Thursday, January 30.

"We are a big nation that has many of the best sons and daughters who are intelligent, have integrity and have a big vision for the progress of this nation. Their way to become leaders of this country must be opened as wide as possible in order to accelerate people's welfare. That is why the zero percent nomination threshold must be We are fighting for it constitutionally," he continued.

According to the DKI senator who took part in submitting the presidential threshold to the Constitutional Court, the broad demand from the public is that the presidential nomination mechanism in Indonesia is designed to be more effective by increasing the candidate's quality criteria.

One of them, said Fahira, is by opening as wide a space as possible for political parties participating in the election to nominate their respective presidential/vice presidential candidates. This is because only political parties that meet certain conditions can nominate a presidential candidate.

"The zero percent threshold will also end an unhealthy democratic situation because people are conditioned to only vote for the same candidate. With a zero percent threshold, it is believed that it will make our democracy healthier," said Fahira. Fahira added that it was important to accommodate this. now and in the future, namely human rights and the quality of democracy. That, he said, was a big wave of people's desire for the election law to open up space for more of the nation's best sons and daughters to compete in the presidential election. "Hopefully this big wave of people's will can be seen, heard and absorbed by the judges of the Constitutional Court who we highly respect. The struggle for the zero percent threshold is the struggle for the realization of the rights of citizens in the political field, as guaranteed in Article 1 paragraph 2, Article 27 paragraph 1, Article 28D paragraph 1, and Article 28I paragraph 2 of our constitution. All citizens have the same right to sit and participate in the government, "concluded Fahira.

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