In three back-to-back meetings on Wednesday, House of Representatives Legislation Body (Baleg) members rushed to revise the prevailing 2016 Regional Elections Law, just a week before the three-day candidate registration period opens on Aug. 27.

Contradicting two Constitutional Court rulings issued a day before, all but one of the nine parties in the House agreed to make a court-ordered lower nomination threshold 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.

Representing the outgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo administration, Home Minister Tito Karnavian and Law and Human Rights Minister Supratman Andi Agtas of president-elect Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra Party, also endorsed the revision.

Baleg planned to bring the changes to the House plenary meeting on Thursday to be passed into law, despite opposition from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

On Tuesday, the Constitutional Court lowered the threshold for political parties to be eligible to nominate candidates for regional head from having won 25 percent of the popular vote to between 6.5 and 10 percent, depending on the region’s number of registered voters. This gives a fighting chance to parties and candidates opposing the dominant Gerindra-led Onward Indonesia Coalition (KIM) in key battleground regions.

The KIM is the electoral alliance that backed president-elect Prabowo and vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of Jokowi, in the February election.