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Jokowi to lead meeting on regional elections
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo speaks in a Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta. (Courtesy of the Presidential Office/-)
P
resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is scheduled to lead two meetings on Monday including one that seeks to revise the election of regional chiefs.
Jokowi will lead a meeting on the second revision of the 2015 Law on Regional Elections at 2 p.m. and a meeting on a government decree on general administration implementation at 3 p.m. at the Presidential Office.
The General Election Commission (KPU) is pushing for the revised 2015 Law to be completed as the second simultaneous regional elections will be held in February next year.
The revision, as part of a verdict set by the Constitutional Court, relates to the first simultaneous regional election in 2015. It includes matters regarding the support for independent candidates, whether or not lawmakers of the House of Representatives and City Council must resign when running as a regional chief candidate and sanctions for political parties who are absent in supporting a candidate in an election.
The House failed to endorse the revision in its plenary meeting at the end of April following heated debates with the government on several points regarding independent candidacies.
The 2017 simultaneous election will be held in seven provinces namely Aceh, Bangka Belitung, Banten, Gorontalo, Jakarta, Sulawesi Barat, and West Papua. The election will also be held in 94 regencies and municipalities throughout 28 provinces in the country. (rin)
