Eight Political Parties Will Reject Closed Proportional Election Systems, Deputy NasDem: This Regarding The Interest Of Political Parties, There Is No Need To Involve Jokowi

The meeting of the leaders of eight political parties at a hotel in Jakarta. (Photo: VOI/Diah Ayu Wardani)

Today, eight political party elites in the Senayan Parliament held a meeting to agree on the same attitude regarding the 2024 election system. The political party leader who has seats in the DPR RI will express his rejection of the discourse on a closed proportional election system.

One of them is the Deputy Chairperson of the NasDem Party, Ahmad Ali. He revealed that the eight political parties felt there was no need to involve President Joko Widodo in their statement of attitude. Because, this is the right of political parties.

"It has nothing to do with President Jokowi. There is no need (to report to Jokowi). Each party has that sovereignty. So, this involves the internal political parties of each party's interests in the future," Ali said on the sidelines of a meeting of 8 political parties in the South Jakarta area, Sunday, January 8.

Moreover, Ali views that Jokowi must understand that every political party has a different political attitude in responding to the polemic of the electoral system.

"Pak Jokowi certainly understands all today's party meetings regarding the interests of the political parties themselves," said Ali.

Today, in the room of a hotel in South Jakarta, eight political party flags were displayed, including the Golkar Party, Gerindra, NasDem, PKB, Democrats, PKS, PAN, and PPP. Only the PDIP flag was not installed at the meeting.

Ketum Golkar Airlangga Hartarto, Ketum PAN Zulkifli Hasan, Ketum Demokrat Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, President of PKS Ahmad Syaikhu, Deputy General NasDem Ahmad Ali, Secretary General NasDEm Jhonny G Plate, Deputy PPP Amir Uskara, Chairman of PKB Muhaimin Iskandar, and other party elites. Only Gerindra party officials were not present at the meeting.

Chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy'ari previously talked about the possibility that the General Election system or the 2024 General Election would return to using a closed proportional system. He said the system was being discussed through the Constitutional Court (MK) trial.

However, Hasyim explained, it was only an assumption based on the existence of a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court regarding the current electoral law. So it is not a proposal from the KPU but from the current electoral factual conditions.

"So maybe prospective election participants can get ready and follow developments if the Court grants the lawsuit," he said during the KPU Year End Note event at the KPU office, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Thursday, December 29, 2022.

Responding to this, some time ago, the eight party factions in the DPR had stated their written stance that they would continue to support the implementation of an open proportional system in the 2024 General Election. They even asked the Constitutional Court to be consistent with its decision on an open proportional system.