JAKARTA – Six political parties yesterday filed a judicial review on Act on Presidential Election to the Constitutional Court. They tried to annul Article 9 of the Act.

The Stipulation in the Article mentioned "Candidate pair proposed by a political party or a group of political parties fulfilling the requirement of minimum 20 percent seats in the House of Representatives or achieving 25 percent of the total national vote in legislative election, before the presidential election was held ".

The Petitioners for the case were People Conscience Party (Hanura), Indonesian Welfare Party, Pro National People Party, Labour Party, Archipelago Republic Party, and Democracy Renewal Party. The file was submitted directly by the General Head of Hanura Party, Wiranto.

According to Wiranto, with the limitation the upcoming election would not produce a leader who could bring forth an improvement. “This will only give an opportunity for status quo to happen, or in terminology I heard from the people, “That again, that again,” said Wiranto in a press conference held in the Constitutional Court.

Before, Star and Crescent Party had also demanded the Court to annul the same stipulation. They considered Article 9 and Article 5 paragraph (3) of Act on Presidential Election had violated Article 6A paragraph (2) and Article 22E paragraph (1) and (2) of the 1945 Constitution.

When submitting the judicial review file, Amelia Yani, Head of Pro National People Party and one of the leaders of National Democratic Party, Roy B.B. Janis were also present.

Wiranto added that initially National Ulema Awakening Party and Country Sun Party also became the Petitioners. “They are currently busy taking care of their internal matters,” he pointed out. According to him, these six parties appointed not less than 121 advocates as their legal counsels to attend the Constitutional Court s trials. Wiranto expected the Constitutional Justice Board would not be coopted and interfered by the political parties interests. SUTARTO

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