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KPU warned against adopting House recommendations on local elections
A political analyst has warned the General Elections Commission (KPU) against adopting the three recommendations proposed by the House of Representatives regarding this yearâs simultaneous local elections, saying that the polling body could get trapped in certain partiesâ internal conflicts
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political analyst has warned the General Elections Commission (KPU) against adopting the three recommendations proposed by the House of Representatives regarding this year's simultaneous local elections, saying that the polling body could get trapped in certain parties' internal conflicts.
'Political interests have forced the House of Representatives to take irrational measures,' Toto Sugiarto, also a Para Syndicate researcher, said in a discussion on simultaneous local elections here on Tuesday.
A number of legislators have urged the KPU to allow parties currently experiencing internal conflict to contest the simultaneous local elections scheduled for December 2015.
The Golkar Party and United Development Party (PPP) are facing threat of disqualification from the elections due to prolonged internal conflict.
The commission and the government have urged the two parties to settle their internal conflict before July 26-28, the period in which parties will register candidates with the commission.
Deputy House Speaker Fadli Zon and a number of legislators have proposed an immediate revision of the 2014 Regional Elections (Pilkada) Law and the 2011 Political Party Law if the KPU declined to adopt the House's recommendations in its regulation on the registration of regional head candidates. (rms)(+++)
