JAKARTA - Indonesia's Constitutional Court is again being asked to rule on legislation that sets a minimum standard for any political party or coalition wanting to field candidates for vice-president and president.
The Constitutional Court, which has powers to review - upon requests from the public - and revoke any stipulation in a law deemed to be against the country's 1945 Constitution, recently received a number of petitions opposing the threshold. The most recent petition, which was filed last week by a civil servant Ikhwan Mansyur Situmeang, said that the presidential threshold deprived eligible citizens of their constitutional right to have more candidates in the presidential poll. Mr Ikhwan added that the rule - applied for the first time in the 2009 presidential election -"amputated" the role of political parties to select and provide future leaders, as mandated by the Constitution.
In the middle of last month, former armed forces commander Gatot Nurmantyo in his petition made reference to the previous presidential poll in 2019, saying that the nation became politically polarised with voters split between two strong candidates.
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