JAKARTA, iNews.id – The Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) highlighted the statement of the Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy’ari, who said that elected candidates running in the 2024 elections were not required to resign. Even though there is a Constitutional Court (MK) ruling that candidates running for elections must resign.
“Elected candidates who run in the regional elections, ordered by the Constitutional Court to the KPU to make conditions, must resign if in their position they have been determined to be candidates for regional heads, then the schedule for their inauguration as legislative members has come, then they must resign. The Constitutional Court requires that,” said Perludem Program Manager Fadli Ramadhanil, when contacted on Friday (10/5/2024).
Fadli emphasized that elected candidates must resign from their position as members of parliament if there is a determination as a participant in the regional elections.
“When do elected candidates have to resign? If he has become a candidate for regional head, and has been appointed as a member of the legislature, he must resign,” he said.
Previously, KPU Chairman Hasyim Asy’ari emphasized that elected candidates who want to run in the 2024 Pilkada are not required to resign from their positions.
“Those who are required to resign are members of the DPR / DPD / Provincial / Regency / City DPRD,” said Hasyim, Thursday (9/5/2024).
Hasyim gave a simulation related to candidacy in the 2024 elections. For example, if there is a member of the DPR / DPD / Provincial / Regency / City DPRD as a result of the 2019 Election and does not run in the 2024 Election, then the person concerned must resign from the position currently occupied.
“Members of the DPR / DPD / DPRD / Provincial / Regency / City as a result of the 2019 Elections and contesting the 2024 Elections and then being elected (elected candidates), then the person concerned resigns from the position currently occupied, and is not required to resign from office,” he said.
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