Spasi-id.com The Indonesian government, through Minister of Law, Human Rights (Human Rights), Immigration, and Corrections, Yushril Ihza Mahendra, states that his side honors the Constitution Court's decision (MK) that undoes the terms of the limitation of the candidates of the presidential and vice president or the presidential threshold in UNWAR - Invite Number 7 years 2017 about the election. MK decided that Article 222 of the Election Act goes against the 1945 Base Act. Friday (3 / 1 / 2024)
Through the written statement on Friday (3 / 1), Yuril explained that according to Article 24C Constitution 45, the MK verdict is final and binding, which means no other legal effort can be made to undo that decision.
"Under Article 24C UUD 45, MK verdict is final and final ruling.final and binding), "Yusril said.
Yushril confirmed that the government, as part of the state, is obliged to honor the MK ruling and cannot make any legal effort to reject it.
"The government is aware of the request to test the terms of Article 222 the Election Act has been performed over 30 times, and new on the test was granted," said Yuril.
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According to Yusril, despite the discrepancies of MK's attitude towards the constitutionality of Article 222, it's on his side to honor MK's decision and not in a position to comment further on that decision.
"However, whatever consideration the MK law in taking that ruling, the government respects it and is certainly not in a position to comment as academics or activists," said Yushril, asserting that the MK is authorised to test the legal norms and declare them against the bill 45.
With this ruling, MK has canceled the threshold for the candidacy of the presidential couple and vice president, who has been a condition for political parties or political parties to run for president and vice president in general.
Article 222 of the previous election bill governed that presidential candidate and vice president should be supported by less than 20 percent of the House seat, now declared no longer valid.
This means that every political party or political union of the electoral party is entitled to carry a couple of presidential candidates and vice presidents without a threshold.
Yusril revealed that this MK decision will impact the execution of the Presidential Election 2029 coming up. In response to that, the government will soon discuss the implications of the MK verdict on the implementation of the election.
"If it is necessary to change and add norms to the election bill due to presidential threshold removal, then the government will certainly do it together with the House," it is definitely Yushril.
The government is also committed to involving all parties in discussing the changes in the election bill, including the Public Election Commission, the election superintendent (Bawaslau), academics, election workers and communities.
"All ♪ Stakeholders ♪ Including KPU and Bawaslu, academics, election workers and the public will certainly be included in the discussion later, "plus Yushril.
The decree of MK that abolishes the president of this threshold began with a plea filed by four students of Sharia faculty and Sunan Law of Sunan Kalivia, Enoka Maya Oktavia, Rizki Maulana Shafei, Faisal Nasal Naq, and Tsalis Khoriul Fatna.
MK granted their request and declared that Article 222 of the Election Act is against the constitution for being considered to violate political rights and sovereignty of the people and violate morality.
Selain itu, MK juga mengeluarkan lima rekomendasi terkait rekayasa konstitusional atau constitutional engineering guna mencegah munculnya terlalu banyak pasangan calon presiden dan wakil presiden dalam pemilu.
Dengan penghapusan presidential threshold ini, diharapkan sistem pemilu dapat lebih demokratis, terbuka, dan memberikan kesempatan lebih luas bagi partai politik untuk mengajukan calon-calon presiden dan wakil presiden yang berkualitas.
Dengan keputusan ini, Indonesia memasuki babak baru dalam sejarah pemilu, yang diharapkan dapat menghasilkan pemilu yang lebih inklusif dan memberikan ruang bagi lebih banyak calon presiden untuk berkompetisi. (Sumber: CNN Indonesia, Editor: KBO-Babel)
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