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National scene: Court maintains extra tenures for legislators
The Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday a judicial review of the 2012 Legislative Elections Law, maintaining provisions that a lawmaker, regional representative council member or local legislator can serve more than two terms
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he Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday a judicial review of the 2012 Legislative Elections Law, maintaining provisions that a lawmaker, regional representative council member or local legislator can serve more than two terms.
'The plaintiff does not have legal standing, so [the petition] is legally irrelevant,' said court chief justice Arief Hidayat while delivering the decision. The petition was filed by three individuals, Song Sip, Sukarwanto and Mega Chandra Sera, all of whom had previously contested legislative elections in Central Java but lost to incumbent legislators.
The panel of justices further argued that the plaintiffs did not present enough evidence to support their petition.
The plaintiffs were challenging articles of the law that did not set a tenure limit for legislators, at national and regional levels. They said that the absence of the articles had closed opportunities for new contenders for legislative posts.
