656 Out Of 850 People Registering For Candidates In Batam Have Not Passed Verification

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The General Election Commission (KPU) of Batam City, Riau Islands said, based on the results of administrative verification, there were 656 people out of 850 candidates for legislative members who did not meet the requirements. "As many as 656 candidates will not meet the requirements and must improve the administrative requirements," said Batam City KPU Election Technical Division Chair William Seipattiratu quoted by ANTARA, Friday, June 23. He stated that the conditions that had not been met for prospective candidates for the Batam City DPRD were different for each candidate to be legislative, including certificates that had not been legalized, certificates were never convicted, and letters registered as voters. "However, according to William, the condition that most of the candidates have not been fulfilled are not yet completed is that they have not completed the letter of never been convicted, from the court. KPU gives time to each candidate candidate whose requirements have not been fulfilled to make improvements from June 25 to July 9, 2023. "If until the repair period is completed it is not corrected, then the status changes, from not yet fulfilling the requirements or BMS, it becomes ineligible or TMS," he said.Bakal Legislative and the supporting party can see for themselves what conditions have not been met in the application of the Candidate Information System (Silon). "For example, party A, there are 50 candidates who have not met the requirements, it can be seen in Silon what BMS, it has been written in status," he said. Batam KPU, will open the schedule for submitting the administrative requirements for improvements over 14 calendar days.

On that occasion, he said political parties could still apply for replacements for legislative candidates. The political party can make changes to the legislative candidate by attaching a letter of application for a re-submittance to the legislative candidate, a document for the prospective repair results using the B political party model form accompanied by a decree or information regarding the approval of the candidate list from the DPP of each political party.