LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL THRESHOLD BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
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https://doi.org/10.36448/pranatahukum.v20i2.422Keywords:
Legal Implications, Presidential Threshold, Constitutional CourtAbstract
The Constitutional Court, through Decision Number 62/PUU-XXII/2024, has invalidated the provision on the minimum percentage threshold for the nomination of presidential and vice-presidential candidates (presidential threshold) as contained in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections. The unconstitutionality of the presidential threshold marks a new chapter in the process of electing the president and vice president. This dynamic certainly has legal implications. This study aims to identify and analyze the legal implications of the Constitutional Court's ruling on the unconstitutionality of the presidential threshold. This research is normative research using historical, regulatory, and conceptual approaches. The results of this study are as follows. First, since the implementation of the election of the president and vice president through general elections, the presidential threshold has always been included in the provisions of the law. Only the nominal amount has changed, with the legislative and executive branches agreeing to maintain the presidential threshold. Second, the Constitutional Court's ruling on the unconstitutionality of the presidential threshold has implications for: strengthening the actualization of people's sovereignty, which nullifies the dominance of certain political parties in the presidential and vice-presidential election process; expanding opportunities for the public to exercise their right to vote and be elected in presidential and vice-presidential elections; and the need to amend the general election law in accordance with the constitutional reasoning contained in the judges' considerations in Decision Number 62/PUU-XXII/2024.
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