PPP Is Considered Unable To Rely On The Hockey Effect Of Sandiaga Uno In Order To Pass The DPR Seat

Sandiaga Uno with Plt Ketum PPP Mardiono/PHOTO via Instagram @sandiuno

BENGKULU - A political expert and academic at Bengkulu University, Panji Suminar, assessed that PPP cannot rely solely on Sandiaga Uno's effect to secure a parliamentary threshold (PT).

"The joining of Sandiaga to PPP has indeed had a slight effect, the rest of Sandiaga's voters in 2019 can add to the PPP's vote in 2024. But it can't be done, PPP must also make sure their votes don't disappear, because grassroots with political parties have different choices of presidential candidates," said Panji. Suminar reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 15.

According to Panji, PPP currently does not have popular figures, or influential figures who are known to many people within the party body. The political party also does not have qualified financial power to see the figures in the party's current body.

Sandiaga's arrival is good news because the figure of the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy has popularity and financial strength.

"From the PPP aspect, PPP is almost collapsed, hopefully with Sandiaga it can increase PPP votes, maybe Sandiaga voters will vote for PPP," he said.

As for Sandiaga, said Panji, the decision to join PPP was a long-term investment. Sandiaga has a great opportunity to lead PPP, seeing the absence of prominent figures in the party at this time.

"Sandiaga also understands that he is entering PPP, does not mean he can become a vice presidential candidate at this time, because PPP does not have a strong bargaining position to offer the name of the vice presidential candidate. At PPP, Sandiaga invests in the long term, at least for 2029, and becomes the Head of PPP," said Panji.

According to regulations, the parliamentary threshold (PT) is a minimum requirement that must be obtained by political parties to get seats in parliament, which is 4 percent.

The parliamentary threshold began to be implemented in the 2009 elections with the aim of creating a simple multiparty system. However, the parliamentary threshold performance implemented in simplifying political parties in parliament is ups and downs.

In the 2009 election, the implementation of the parliamentary threshold based on Law number 10 of 2008 concerning Elections, the threshold for vote acquisition is at least 2.5 percent of the total nationally valid votes.

The parliamentary threshold was set at 3.5 percent in the 2014 General Election, and applies nationally to all members of the DPR and DPRD as regulated in Law Number 8 of 2012. And in the 2019 Election, the parliamentary threshold was increased to 4 percent. For PPP, the number of votes obtained in the 2019 Election is 4.52 percent, slightly above the parliamentary threshold.