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KPU prepares regulation for revotes in uncontested elections
The rerun elections slated for 2025 will follow the same procedure as the November simultaneous regional elections, which started with candidate registration and followed by a campaign period for candidates.
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Police officers stand guard during the extended candidate registration period for the 2024 regional elections at the Ciamis General Elections Commission (KPU) office in Ciamis regency, West Java, on Sept. 4, 2024. (Antara/Adeng Bustomi)
The General Elections Commission (KPU) is working on a new regulation on rerunning any regional head elections by next year in regions where the sole candidate pair fails to win in an uncontested race.
Ahead of the simultaneous regional polls on Nov. 27, concerns have been mounting that dozens of areas will have uncontested elections after only one candidate pair registered for the race.
The KPU prolonged the registration to encourage more candidates to apply. But after the poll body closed the extended application period, at least 41 regions, including West Papua; Surabaya, East Java; and Samarinda, East Kalimantan, failed to see new any pairs come forward to contest the elections.
The poll body is now working on the regulation stipulating ground rules for the repeat elections in 2025 in the case of the sole candidate pair failing to garner more than 50 percent of the vote that is required to be declared the election winner.
“We’re drafting a regulation on the [vote] tabulation process to determine the final result of the regional elections. To know whether a revote is necessary, we need to be able to confirm the vote results first,” KPU commissioner Idham Holik told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
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He added that the rerun polls would follow the same procedure as the November regional elections, which started with parties and prospective candidates registering with the poll body within the registration window. A campaign period will also follow the KPU’s announcement on the final list of candidates.
