Want The Third Axis, PKS: Reducing The Presidential Threshold Number To 4 Percent Most Effective

Chairman of the PKS Shura Council Salim Segaf Al-Jufri/ Instagram

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PKS Shura Council, Salim Segaf Al-Jufri, welcomed the idea of medium-sized parties, such as those conveyed by PKB, PPP and PAN to start discussing a coalition or joint platform towards 2024. He assessed that political communication and friendship should continue to be built, especially for those who improvement of the nation and state in the future.

Salim also hopes for the formation of three coalition shafts in the 2024 presidential election to stop unhealthy politics and extreme divisions that occurred in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections. In addition, it is also to accommodate and provide many choices for future leaders of the nation.

"We believe that this country has a large stock of leaders whose credibility, integrity and acceptability are adequate to lead Indonesia in the future," said Salim in his statement, Friday, December 31.

However, Salim realized that wanting to form three axes was not an easy thing. Because, there needs to be a revision of the rules to open up the possibility of the three axes.

One of the problems, said Salim, is the many obstacles to opening the doors of national leadership. For example, the application of the Presidential Threshold (PT) is too high, which is 20 percent. According to Salim, the impact of the high implementation of PT is the narrowing of space to open many axes in carrying out presidential candidates. In the end, he said, only two axes were formed which would increase polarization. Therefore, Salim considered that reducing the figure from 20 percent to 4 percent, the same as the parliamentary threshold, was the most effective effort.

"Therefore, the most effective effort to stop the extreme political division is to reduce the number of PT to be more proportional, namely 4 percent according to the parliamentary threshold. So that a minimum of 3 axis of candidate pairs can be formed in the upcoming 2024 presidential election," said Salim.