Direct Election System for President and Vice President in Indonesia Post Amendment the Constitution of 1945

Suparto, Suparto (2022) Direct Election System for President and Vice President in Indonesia Post Amendment the Constitution of 1945. Jurnal Legal Brief, 11 (5). pp. 2040-2047. ISSN 2722-4643

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Abstract

In addition to being held simultaneously in the 2019 presidential and vice presidential elections, provisions regarding the presidential threshold for political parties to nominate the pair of president and vice president are still in effect as stipulated in Article 222 of Law no. 7 of 2017 concerning Elections. Based on the research, it was found that simultaneous elections with the implementation of the presidential threshold resulted in the following (a). The occurrence of a democratic system that is not ideal, because during the nomination stage for the pair of President and Vice President, the votes used by political parties or coalitions of political parties are the votes obtained from the previous legislative elections. Meanwhile, when selecting the pair of President and Vice President, the votes used are the votes from the current year's election. (b). The existence of political parties that proposed pairs of candidates for President and Vice President did not pass or did not get seats in the elections which were held simultaneously. Meanwhile, the pair of candidates for President and Vice President he carried won the election for President and Vice President. (c). Closing the opportunity for new parties to nominate pairs of candidates for President and Vice President, even though these parties are parties that have passed the selection (verification) and have been determined as election participants by the General Elections Commission (KPU) because they do not have votes or seats as a result of having never participated in elections.

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