Secretary General Of PKS Asks The Constitutional Court To Be Consistent And Reject The Material Test Of The Election Law On Open Proportional

PKS Secretary General, Habib Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi. (IST)

JAKARTA - The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) strongly rejects the judicial review or judicial review of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections related to an open proportional system being submitted to the Constitutional Court (MK).

PKS Secretary General, Habib Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi, asked the Constitutional Court to reject the judicial review of the Election Law.

"The judicial review of the application back to the electoral system using a closed proportional was rejected by the Constitutional Court. Because it is natural that the Constitutional Court is consistent with its previous decision," Habib Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi told the media, Thursday, January 5 in Jakarta.

The judicial review lawsuit against the electoral system registered with case number 114/PUU-XX/2022, has the potential to castrate people's political rights.

"I see the Constitutional Court's decision Number: 22-24/PUU-VI/2008, considering that the electoral system must not seize the people's sovereignty. It is also not permissible for the system to be transformed into an oligarchy of a political party," said the member of the DPR RI from the PKS faction.

According to him, in an open proportional electoral system, the people can use their sovereignty to choose openly.

"If we look at the considerations of the Constitutional Court, it states that the people's desire to choose their representatives proposed by political parties in the election, in accordance with their wishes and wishes, hopes can be realized so that the elected representatives are not only concerned with the interests of political parties, but are able to bring the aspirations of the voters," said this member of Commission III of the DPR RI.

He hopes that the Constitutional Court will be able to appear as a consistent and upright constitutional guard with a decision that has been made before.

"As the guardian of the constitution, we hope that the Constitutional Court will remain consistent, upright and not forget the ratio of determination that has been made. So that it will not make different decisions from the previous Constitutional Court's decision. This is to maintain consistency in the interpretation of the constitution in Indonesia," said PKS Secretary General Habib Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi regarding their rejection of the judicial review of the Election Law on proportional to open.