PKS Targets To Enter The Top 4 Winning Parties In The 2024 Election

Secretary General of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Aboe Bakar Al-Habsyi (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Aboe Bakar Al-Habsyi targets his party to be successful in entering the top four parties winning the 2024 Legislative Election.

As is known, in the 2019 general election, PKS ranked sixth out of nine participating political parties with 8.21 percent of the votes.

Thus, if it is in the top four, PKS will shift one of the three parties with the most seats in Senayan, namely PDIP, Gerindra, Golkar, or PKB.

"The target is the top four, lah. Kick it a bit. If we can, we can play in the top four (order) above. I won't mention the top three first, lah," said Aboe Bakar when met at Istora Senayan, Sunday, May 29.

Meanwhile, in the results of the national deliberation some time ago, Aboe Bakar revealed that PKS has a target of up to 15 percent of the vote.

"The results of our national assembly ask for 15 percent. If it can be in double digits, yes, it will work, but it is a bit hard," he said.

Previously, in the PKS 20th anniversary event which was held at Istora Senayan today, PKS President Ahmad Syaikhu invited other parties to file a lawsuit for judicial review of Law (UU) Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections related to the presidential threshold. .

In the Election Law, the threshold for presidential candidacy is set at a minimum of 20 percent of parliamentary seats obtained by political parties or a combination of political parties in the previous election.

Syaikhu realized that the acquisition of PKS seats in the 2019 election which was only 8.21 percent could not make PKS carry presidential and vice presidential candidates alone because it was hampered by the presidential threshold requirements.

"The presidential threshold is still high at 20 percent, so there are many obstacles. There is no political party that can freely advance its cadres to be able to appear as national leaders," said Syaikhu at the PKS 20th Milad event at Istora Senayan, Jakarta , Sunday, May 29.

Therefore, in front of political figures representing other parties who were present at this milad event, Syaikhu invited him to try to lower the threshold for presidential candidacy by filing a judicial review lawsuit to the Constitutional Court.

"It is appropriate, as elements of a political party, we are grateful in this era of collaboration that today we can conduct a judicial review of this 20 percent threshold presidential provision. So, then it can be lowered, more easily, and there is no polarization in the process. future politics," said Syaikhu.