House deputy speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad of the Gerindra Party said the plenary session to pass the bill had to be rescheduled because of a lack of a quorum. He refused to say when the session will resume.

“We work by following our existing mechanism. We have to hold a [preparatory] meeting that will decide when the plenary session will take place,” said Dasco, who led the plenary on Thursday.

In three back-to-back meetings at the House Legislation Body (Baleg) on Wednesday, eight political parties allied with outgoing President Joko “Jokowi Widodo and his successor Prabowo Subianto rushed to revise the Regional Elections Law, just a week before the three-day candidate registration period opens on Aug. 27.

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Contradicting two Constitutional Court rulings issued a day before, Baleg agreed to make a court-ordered lower nomination threshold of between 6.5 and 10 percent of the popular vote applicable only to small political parties with no seats in the local legislature, as well as to have the minimum age of candidacy apply at the time of inauguration, not registration.

In the revision, a party or an alliance of political parties with seats in the local legislature can choose either using a higher popular vote threshold of 25 percent or the 20 percent threshold of legislative seats, reviving another provision the court already revoked.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the former party of Jokowi, was the only party that opposed the revision.

The House’s revision drew public ire on social media and hundreds of students, activists and labor groups are staging protests on Thursday in front of the House complex in Jakarta, and in other cities across the country.