2024-09-15 08:13:59
Sunday, September 15, 2024 – 03:41 WIB
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jpnn.comKENDAL – Constitutional Law expert from Gajah Mada University (UGM) Dian Agung Wicaksono assessed that the General Elections Commission (KPU) had violated its own rules.
According to Dian, the commissioners could be punished for rejecting the nomination files of Dico Ganinduto-Ali Nurudin in the 2024 Kendal Pilkada.
This was stated by Dian in a webinar with the theme ‘Testing the Independence of the Kendal KPU-Bawaslu in the Polemic of Rejection of the Dico Ganinduto-Ali Nurudin Files’ which was held on Friday (13/9).
Dian said that the Regional Election Law only requires that political parties can nominate one pair of candidates.
However, the General Election Commission Regulation (PKPU) seems to open up opportunities for political parties to register more than one candidate pair.
“We can conclude that in fact the PKPU, especially in Article 12, which then contains norms in the case of political parties participating in the election proposing more than one pair, which the KPU then conducts qualifications for, means that the provision can be interpreted as contradicting the Regional Election Law in fact,” said Dian.
“Why? Because the Regional Election Law only requires political parties to nominate one candidate. So then the PKPU seems to open up the opportunity to propose more than one candidate pair, which means in other words, the PKPU has become a criminogenic factor, in quotation marks, not in context,” he continued.
So according to him, it is the criminogenic factor that makes someone commit an offense.
If a political party is allowed to nominate more than one candidate pair, in the end the political party must withdraw one of the candidates it has proposed.
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