Transactional Prone, Ketum PAN Suggests Threshold For Presidential Election Only 4 Percent

DOK ANTARA/Zulkifli Hasan

JAKARTA - Chairman of the National Mandate Party, Zulkifli Hasan, assessed that the imposition of a 20 percent presidential nomination threshold for political parties has the potential to present transactional politics.

So according to him, the presidential election threshold is no longer needed. If there is, then the percentage should be reduced.

"We proposed yesterday that the presidential election for political parties should not be limited to 20 percent, because it will result in transactional politics. Therefore, the presidential election is only 4 percent," Zulhas said in a national speech on the 50th anniversary of CSIS Indonesia online, Thursday, August 19.

Thus, said Zulhas, the votes obtained by political parties will not be forfeited. "And if a political party gets a representative, go ahead, it won't be forfeited," said Zulhas.

Zulhas also reminded that the impact that occurs with a threshold of 20 percent does not only present transactional politics. However, it also creates sharper differences in society, starting from SARA issues and others.

"Because we are limited, the law is like that, what is the system in the end? Our politics has become transactional politics, all measures are money, the important thing is to win, ignoring values. Now this is what we are experiencing now," said Zulhas.