Deregulating the Nomination Threshold for Regional Head Elections and Local Oligarchy
Authors: Naharuddin Naharuddin , Imran Imran 
Published: November 2024

In the midst of political deadlock due to cartel and oligarchic practices, the Constitutional Court then made a breakthrough with the passing of Decision No. 60/PUU-XXII/2024 which changed the nomination threshold formula from a percentage of seats to a range of 6.5% to 10% adjusted to the number of Permanent Voter Lists in an electoral district. The breakthrough of the Constitutional Court made democracy in the regions return to bagkit, someone who used to have difficulty can now appear easily. The purpose of this article is to explain the regulative obstacles to the development of democratic elections and the implications of the Constitutional Court Decision No. 60 for efforts to build democratic elections. This research uses a normative approach. The results of the study found that the expansion of the meaning of elections by the Constitutional Court to include regional elections is something constitutional, because through Decision No. 55/PUU-XVII/2019 the Constitutional Court has laid an important foundation for the design of the model for organizing simultaneous elections. This has implications for the circulation of government in the regions, which previously could not be proposed by regional head candidates to be proposed. Previous provisions related to the nomination threshold are too heavy for minority political parties that do not have seats now allow regional head candidates to compete.
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