JAKARTA, STARTOGEL -the Constitutional Court (MK) abolished the decision on the threshold of presidential candidacy and vice presidential candidates or presidential threshold. The following was decided in the trial of Case Number 62/PUU-XXII / 2024 which was held in the courtroom of the Constitutional Court, Jakarta, Thursday (2/1/2025). “Grant the application of the applicant for the whole,” said chairman of the Constitutional Court, Suhartoyo while reading out the verdict. Suhartoyo said that the norm of Article 222 of Law No. 7 of 2017 regarding General Elections (State Gazette of the Republic of Indonesia in 2017 number 182, supplement to the State Gazette of the Republic of Indonesia number 6109) is in conflict with the 1945 Constitution.
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As for the article stated to contradict the following subject together with the threshold requirements for the nomination of the president and vice president by political parties. Article 22 of Law No. 7 of 2017 reads as follows: “candidate pairs are proposed by political parties or a combination of Political Parties participating in elections that meet several requirements for obtaining at least 20% (twenty percent) of the number of DPR seats or obtaining 25% (twenty-five percent) from valid votes nationwide in the previous period of DPR elections.
“For Information, lawsuit number 62/PUU-XXII/2024 was sued by four applicants, namely Enika Maya Oktavia, Rizki Maulana Syafei, Faisal Nasirul Haq, and Tsalis Khoirl Fatna. According to the plan, the Constitutional Court will read out four Material Test decisions regarding the presidential threshold decision today. Launch Kompas.id, three other cases namely case 87/PUU-XXII/2024 filed by Dian Fitri Sabrina et al, case 101/PUU-XXII/2024 filed by Hadar N Gumay and Titi Anggraini, and also case 129/PUU-XXII / 2024 filed by Gugum Ridho Putra et al. Article 222 of the election law is also a norm that has really often been tested to the Constitutional Court. Until now, there have been at least 32 times the presidential threshold test rules to the Constitutional Court.
The case, which has been heard since early August, is a matter of testing the threshold requirements for the 33rd, 34th, 35th and 36th presidential nominations. Listen to breaking news and our selection of news immediately on your mobile.
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