Losing In The 2024 Presidential Election, Cak Imin Will Ask For Revision Of The Election Law

Vice President Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin while attending the Presidential and Vice President Elected Determination at the KPU Office, Wednesday 24 April (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) admitted that he would ask for a revision of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections.

The Vice Presidential Candidate for the 2024 General Election said that his party would propose a revision of the Election Law because it saw a weakness in the arrangement for the implementation of the democratic contestation.

This was conveyed by Cak Imin while attending the appointment of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as president and vice president elected for the 2024 General Election. Cak Imin came with Anies Baswedan.

"Certainly (will propose a revision of the Election Law). Every 5 years we will definitely perfect all the weaknesses of our election law," said Cak Imin at the KPU RI office, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, April 24.

On the one hand, Cak Imin admitted that he still hopes that the 2024 election rights in the DPR RI will still be rolled out. Although, the 2024 presidential election process has been completed after the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) rejected the request for a dispute over the 2024 presidential election.

"Actually, PKB still wants a budget. The goal is to read in detail the weak point of the downturn of our democracy," he said.

However, Cak Imin previously admitted that efforts so that the right of inquiry could be rolled out could not be carried out easily. Moreover, if you look at the political map in today's parliament.

Meanwhile, PKS President Ahmad Syaikhu also sees the opportunity to implement election rights quite difficult. The requirement for the proposed right of inquiry is at least 2 factions with 25 signatures of the members of the DPR RI proposers.

"In fact, we are also limited to a reality to applying for the right of inquiry," Syaikhu said on Tuesday, April 23.

The current attitude of PKB and PKS regarding the right of inquiry is different from that of the NasDem Party. Now, the General Chairperson of NasDem Surya Paloh assesses that the issue of rolling out the 2024 General Election Questionnaire Rights which was voiced by several factions is no longer relevant after the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK).

The Constitutional Court's decision on Monday rejected all requests for dispute over the results of the general election (PHPU) proposed by the presidential and vice presidential candidate Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar, as well as the Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD pair.

This was revealed by Surya Paloh in response to the Constitutional Court's decision when holding a press conference at Nasdem Tower Jakarta, Monday night. "The right of inquiry is no longer up to date for today's conditions, according to Nasdem," said Surya Paloh.