JAKARTA – 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 legislative candidates (caleg) who want to run in the 2024 Pilkada are not required to resign. The KPU is considered to have overruled the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK).
Perludem Program Manager Fadli Ramadhanil emphasized that there is already a Constitutional Court decision that orders the KPU to make conditions for candidates who want to run in the 2024 Pilkada. One of them, said Fadli, is that elected candidates must resign if they have been determined to be candidates for regional head (cakada).
“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,” Fadli said when contacted on Friday (10/5/2024).
Fadli emphasized that elected candidates must resign from their position as members of Parliament if there has been a determination as a regional election participant. He emphasized the obligation of elected candidates to resign when they are determined as election participants.
“When does an elected candidate have to resign? If he has become a candidate for regional head and has been inaugurated as a legislative member, he must resign. So the time sequence that needs to be considered is the determination of being a candidate and the inauguration schedule as an elected legislator,” he said.
According to him, the obligations of elected candidates for DPR, DPRD, or DPD cannot be generalized. “For elected DPR members, for example, the inauguration falls on October 1, 2024. The determination of regional head candidates is before that,” he said.
“So elected DPR members who become candidates for regional heads, must resign when they are inaugurated on October 1, 2024. Likewise for DPRD members whose inauguration schedules vary. Then there must be a statement requirement that must be made by the KPU such as the Constitutional Court’s decision. So it cannot be equalized for all elected legislators,” he said.
Previously, Chairman of the General Election Commission (KPU) Hasyim Asy’ari emphasized that elected legislative candidates (caleg) 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.
If there is a member of the DPR / DPD / DPRD / Provincial / Regency / City as a result of the 2019 Election and runs for the 2024 Election but is not elected, said Hasyim, then the person concerned must resign from the position currently occupied.
“Members of the DPR / DPD / Provincial / Regency / City DPRD as a result of the 2019 Elections and contesting the 2024 Elections and being elected (elected candidates), then the person concerned resigns from the position currently occupied, and is not required to resign from office,” he explained.
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