Regarding The Minimum Age Limit For Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates, Cak Imin Asks All Parties To Respect The Constitutional Court's Decision

Cak Imin, vice presidential candidate accompanying presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in UGM, Sleman, DI Yogyakarta, Wednesday 11 October 2023. (ANTARA-Luqman Hakim)

JAKARTA - Will the vice presidential candidate Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin invite all parties to respect whatever decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the minimum age limit for presidential and vice-presidential candidates. "I invite everyone to respect whatever the Constitutional Court decides, we'll just have to wait," said Cak Imin to the media crew at the Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Cafe University, Sleman, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), Yogyakarta, Wednesday, October 11, confiscated by Antara. According to the constitution in Indonesia, according to him, the Constitutional Court has full authority to decide on any lawsuit or judicial review submitted by the public. However, Cak Imin emphasized that the Constitutional Court must be responsible, be transparent, and be accountable for the decisions taken. "Until today, I don't know whether it has been tried or not," he said. He stated that he was reluctant to speculate and chose to be patient in waiting for the decision on the lawsuit on the minimum age requirements for the vice president-presidential candidate. "Later what the decision will be and how it will definitely be explained by the Constitutional Court rather than speculate," he said. According to Cak Imin, he and the presidential candidate Anies Baswedan are ready to face anyone who opposes in the 2024 presidential election. "We are very ready with anyone. We have consolidated and stated that we want two pairs, three couples or anyone, we state that we are ready," he said.

The Constitutional Court stated that it would read out the judicial review decision of Article 169 letter q of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu) regarding the minimum age limit for presidential and vice presidential candidates) on Monday, October 16, 2023. Based on the schedule set by the General Elections Commission (KPU), the registration of prospective presidential and vice-presidential candidates is scheduled to start from October 19 to November 25, 2023. As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu), pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in the election who meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR. Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR. It could also be that the candidate pairs are promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.