This change applies only to non-parliamentary parties or those without seats in the Regional House of Representatives, or DPRD.
This is regulated in the problem inventory list (DIM) of Article 40 of the Regional Head Election Bill (RUU Pilkada).
"This actually adopts the Constitutional Court's decision that accommodates non-parliamentary parties in the regions. Thus, they can also register with the KPU, which they previously could not," Deputy Chairman of DPR RI, Baleg Achmad Baidowi, who led the meeting at the parliament complex, stated in Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday.
He remarked that parties that have seats in the DPRD still follow the old rules of a minimum of 20 percent of the DPRD seats, or 25 percent of the valid votes.
On Tuesday, the MK revised the threshold for nominating candidates for regional head and deputy regional head posts through Decision Number 60/PUU-XXII/2024.
The court amended Article 40(1) of Law No. 10 of 2016, which earlier required parties to either gain 25 percent of the vote share or 20 percent of the Regional Representative Council (DPRD) seats to nominate candidates.
The ruling allows political parties without DPRD seats to nominate candidate pairs. The court determined that the number of valid votes in a region will solely determine the eligibility of political parties or coalitions to propose candidates.
"We have partially granted the petitioners' request," Chief Justice Suhartoyo announced in the MK's Plenary Courtroom on Tuesday while reading the decision in a case brought by the Labor Party and Gelora Party.
In the petition, the Labor Party was represented by its president, Said Iqbal, and secretary-general Ferri Nurzali. The Gelora Party was represented by its general chairperson, Muhammad Anis Matta, and secretary-general Mahfuz Sidik.
The new thresholds will be based on a province's or district's voter population and will range from 6.5 percent to 10 percent.
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