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The Muslim-based party is banking on the planned revision to the 2017 General Elections Law, particularly the provision on the 4 percent electoral threshold, for a chance to rejoin the legislature in 2029, but a BRIN analyst says it has a steep uphill climb ahead.
While Indonesians have become more religiously conservative, most of them shunned Islamism in the February general election, as indicated by the failure of the United Development Party (PPP), the country’s oldest Islamist political party, to win any seats in the national legislature for the first time in its 51-year history.
United Development Party (PPP) acting chair Muhamad Mardiono has expressed his disappointment with the Constitutional Court for dismissing all the party’s petitions challenging February’s legislative election results.
The Islamic-based United Development Party (PPP) only won 3.9 percent of the national vote according to the final tabulation by the General Elections Commission (KPU), slightly short of the 4 percent threshold to qualify for seats at the House of Representatives.
The National Awakening Party (PKB), the largest party in East Java, is working with smaller party and former rival in the February presidential election, the United Development Party (PPP), to vet candidates to go up against the possible reelection bid of popular former governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa.
The United Development Party (PPP) has given the biggest sign yet that it will be the first party to jump ship and join the coalition backing president-elect Prabowo Subianto, following its bruising defeat in the February general election.
The Constitutional Court had received more than 250 election result disputes by the registration deadline on March 23, including one from Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD's legal team seeking a revote and a disqualification of the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka candidate pair.
Civil society organizations are urging political parties to exercise their right to an inquiry by launching a House of Representatives probe into allegations of election fraud, which have continued to gain traction less than two weeks before the General Elections Commission (KPU) is due to announce the official winners.
The Indonesian Solidarity Party’s (PSI) hopes of entering the House of Representatives remain alive as the latest vote tally shows it gaining electoral ground, while the future of United Development Party (PPP) in the legislature looks shaky as it hovers near the cut-off for representation in the legislature.
