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Local leaders running for MPs must resign: Gamawan
Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said he was upset to learn that some local leaders who will run in the 2014 legislative elections were still active in their current positions despite the laws requiring them to resign
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ome Minister Gamawan Fauzi said he was upset to learn that some localleaders who will run in the 2014 legislative elections were still active intheir current positions despite the laws requiring them to resign.
'I thought they had filed their resignations immediately after the KPU [General Elections Commissions] issued the DCS [Provisional List of Candidates]. It turned out that many of them are still holding their positions till today,' Gamawan said as quoted in a release by the Cabinet Secretariat on Wednesday.
The 2012 Law on legislative elections stipulates that regents and vice regents as well as mayor and vice mayors intending to run for the House of Representatives or regional legislative bodies, must resign from their positions.
Their positions will be temporarily filled by their deputies or other officials approved by respective regional legislative bodies.
The KPU issued the Final List of Candidates (DCT) last week and several active local leaders still appeared on the list of 6,608 candidates nationwide.
Among them were the Democratic Party's Wahidin Halim, the mayor of Tangerang in Banten; the National Mandate Party's (PAN) Johanes Samping Aoh, the regent of Nagekeo in East Nusa Tenggara; and the Golkar Party's Djelantik Mokodompit, the mayor of Kotamobagu in North Sulawesi.
Gamawan said he was disappointed because the KPU had declared them eligible to run even though the local leaders did not resign in compliance with the 2012 Law.
KPU Commissioner Sigit Pamungkas told Antara that the commission would re-examine the eligibility of the local leaders.
